anvil

Couples have married at the anvil in Gretna Green for centuries, but the traditional craft had disappeared from the village.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

But Higginbotham recently changed his mind, buying a brand new $51,000 Jeep Wrangler in a bluish-gray color called anvil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Nomura analysts warn more drastic measures may be on the anvil.

From Barron's ● May 17, 2026

To meet these challenges, the team built a diamond anvil cell system combined with laser heating and high-temperature imaging.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 26, 2025

Aureliano wrote the name on a piece of paper that he pasted to the base of the small anvil: stake.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bynum uses allusions like anvils, following up that sour note by cueing the ballad “The Beast in Me” by Nick Lowe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

Those standards require that helmet manufacturers evaluate their product’s safety performance by dropping a helmeted dummy head made of magnesium about 6.5 feet onto a variety of steel anvils.

From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2023

Each stroke Wednesday night seemed a little harder until, by the end of the match, she was delivering hammers and anvils.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2022

But a decade ago, researchers found, using diamond anvils at outer core conditions, that iron conducts heat at least twice as fast as previously thought.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 30, 2022

Moving her lips rapidly, she held her rosary tightly and recited each Hail Mary with a desperate gravity, as though she were flinging anvils at the gates of Heaven.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy