anvil
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To meet these challenges, the team built a diamond anvil cell system combined with laser heating and high-temperature imaging.
From Science Daily • Dec. 26, 2025
So when he duly exclaims “I’ve got it all,” you can practically hear the anvil of ironic doom shifting into position above his head.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 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
‘Well, it did not skewer me, I am glad to say,’ said Frodo; ‘though I feel as if I had been caught between a hammer and an anvil.’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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