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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

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

There was still no answer, and Wart turned back to the anvil.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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