shaft
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On this trip, many of us played with hickory-shafted clubs, the equipment used before the steel shaft was introduced in the 1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
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
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
The beam went about fifty feet, but the shaft went farther.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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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
While regular mining continues in parts, there are also hundreds of abandoned shafts along the main gold reef.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
This included three uncapped mine shafts beneath the lagoon that were suggested as potential pathways for contaminant movement.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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
Where they did, thin shafts of light struck the dust motes suspended in the air and lit the photos on the walls.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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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
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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