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On Wednesday, the NBA dropped an anvil on Clipperland as it penalized the team for what it said were repeated salary-cap violations by engineering additional income opportunities for soon-to-be former star Kawhi Leonard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

One space had a section in the floor that was likely to have held an anvil as archaeologists found bits of broken metal around it.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

At the center was a huge platform with all sorts of machines, cauldrons, forges, and the largest anvil I’d ever seen—a block of iron the size of a house.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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

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

Ever since, the explosiveness of Erivo’s voice — an earthy yet heaven-sent soprano that aches with perseverance and grace — has beencausing jaws to droplike anvils .

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2019

He had to lean in to be heard amid the constant hammering of the anvils.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray