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During a test of the shaft deluge system, airflow sensors on the 4850 Level recorded an unexpected increase in air movement.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

A headframe — that’s the tower built directly over an underground mine shaft — is part of Tonopah’s logo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

But it's clear the consequences of this strike could have been far worse: the drone hit the lift shaft on the roof, which absorbed much of the blast.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

The flagellum comprises more than 30 distinct parts, so similar to those of an outboard motor that biologists speak of the flagellum’s propeller, drive shaft and so forth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

As her eyes fell upon Jason, Cupid swiftly drew his bow and shot a shaft deep into the maiden’s heart.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

While it was put out quickly, when firefighters entered the building they discovered it had spread to the lift shafts, where two lifts were stuck.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Under normal conditions, fresh air enters the facility through two primary shafts and exits through two separate shafts.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

Such flexibility could fundamentally reshape building design, allowing architects to think beyond single towers and instead create interconnected structures where movement flows through entire developments rather than up and down individual shafts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

While rare earths will be the primary focus, exploration will also assess the potential for gold mining — the area is dotted with old, small-scale adits and shafts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Benny, who believed that shafts of light make the path to heaven.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

In her view, she was shafted into the “what’s mine is yours” agreement.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

The rare find included a shafted Roman "pilum" spear.

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2023

And still more get shafted by bureaucratic blunders: One survivor, for instance, filed a claim on time but was falsely told by the VA that she was too young to qualify.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2023

Many of their residents feel shafted anew by the trade deal, their resentment toward Johnson’s government in far-off London on the rise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2021

Looking at the shafted sun, Francie had that same fine feeling that came when she recalled the poem they recited in school.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

For some, it’s the beautiful place where having it all means shafting someone else, as in Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown,” about Los Angeles’ theft of water from the Owens Valley.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2019

Lindsay was instrumental, way back in the dark ages of the fifties, in forcing the N.H.L. to redress the historic shafting of their chattels by an ownership combine stuck in nineteenth-century ideas of employee relations.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015

Not too long ago, positive change inevitably occurred following an embarrassing news report of a company behaving badly, e.g., shafting its employees out of their justly earned wages.

From Forbes ● Feb. 16, 2015

Among four citations alleging repeat safety violations were charges of unguarded elevated platforms and horizontal shafting.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2014

Instead she saw...the sky—moonlight shafting through smoke, and even the glimmer of stars.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor