shaft
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The research focused on six royal mummies originally uncovered during the 1890s at Dahshur, an Egyptian burial complex containing pyramids and shaft tombs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
Italian Andrea Pavan said he is "optimistic" about a return to playing after he fell down an open lift shaft in February.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
As she glanced to see what it was, an enormous shaft of brilliant white light stabbed her in the eyes.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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While regular mining continues in parts, there are also hundreds of abandoned shafts along the main gold reef.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
Although mining no longer takes place there, mining engineers remain responsible for maintaining the extensive network of tunnels and shafts safely.
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
The jungle around him was warm again, the sun beating down in generous shafts of light as he found Koffi's wide eyes.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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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
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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
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