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shaft

[shaft, shahft] / ʃæft, ʃɑft /
NOUN
rod
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NOUN
weapon
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NOUN
ray of light
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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

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

The spark plug ignites a fuel-air mix, causing the rotor to turn a shaft, creating motion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

“See it? That’s a shaft of light shining down through some kind of slats!”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

The area has been a focus of a government crackdown on illegal mining, with soldiers deployed alongside police to tackle criminal networks operating around abandoned mine shafts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Both shafts are near primary production level and first sales remain on track for mid-2028, says the bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

This included three uncapped mine shafts beneath the lagoon that were suggested as potential pathways for contaminant movement.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

From time to time sunlight shone in tall shafts through the foliage, and then there were stretches of shadow, or brief squalls of rain and mist.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

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


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