anvil
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Nomura analysts warn more drastic measures may be on the anvil.
From Barron's ● May 17, 2026
The balls, which were delivered directly from the manufacturer to the officiating crew before each game, could be so stiff that kickers felt like they were driving their foot into an anvil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
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
Les Capon, project manager with AOC Archaeology, said he believed part of the area could have been a blacksmith's workshop after discovering evidence of a forge and an anvil.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
There was something about the work that fascinated me: the flying sparks and the ringing anvil, the cherry-red metal and the roaring forge.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
And as more enthusiasts join the fray, the price of anvils has risen.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 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
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
In the engine room below, it sounded like Leo and the others were doing an Irish line dance with anvils tied to their feet.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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