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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

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

It plans to sink the mine’s first shaft this year, and hopes to repeat similar success in Congo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

Open-mouthed, Taran watched while the shaft began its descent: as the arrow plummeted to earth, long, silvery streamers sprang from its feathers.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

And it was the site of the UK's most northerly deep coal mine, before the last shafts closed in the 1970s.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

When the Journal visited the Mutoshi mine in 2018, Congolese miners working for the company could be seen descending into hand-dug shafts without helmets, shoes or safety equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 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

There was a loud splintering of shafts as the horse careered onwards, trailing in its wake reins, tracers and shattered timber.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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 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

Without even trying, she’d shafted her best friend.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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