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Their theory was that the descending column of water acted somewhat like a syringe, pushing air through the shaft as it fell.

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

Utility company Con Edison said a passing truck likely dislodged the manhole’s cover about 12 minutes before Gocaj parked her car and fell into the open shaft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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

I had barely dozed off when a sudden shaft of lightning hit near, struck a tree that crashed down in the woods.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

So much gas was released that some was sucked back into the engine rooms through ventilation shafts, triggering gas detector alarms.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

But the facility may still face challenges to profitability, the organisation said, including flooded mine shafts and the depletion of higher-grade ore deposits.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Whereas U.S. attacks on Fordow in 2025 targeted ventilation shafts that went straight down to the halls of the site, publicly available satellite imagery hasn’t exposed the definite locations of any ventilation sites at Pickaxe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Workers in underground tunnels and shafts depend on reliable ventilation to survive and work safely.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

He slept at last, and the dreaming, curious moon peeped in at the window to throw shafts of pale light into the rooms and over each of the sleeping occupants.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

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

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

"I didn't anticipate that if things went wrong that we would be shafted, to put it bluntly".

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

“The continuous theme in the record industry, from vinyl to Napster to streaming,” Menn said, “is that bands get shafted in every single iteration of the system.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

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

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2023

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