anvil
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They would strike the anvil as part of the wedding ceremony - a tradition which has continued to this day.
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
Every fourth or fifth joke has the air of having been hammered out on an anvil, and a few might have been better left in the smithery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
Lester bolted out from the right and flew into the water, making a splash like an anvil hurled over the side.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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
What are you going to do, ban anvils?
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
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
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
By the time the chestnut tree was in sight, they felt like tiny anvils weighing me down.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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