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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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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 piston rotates a crank shaft, creating movement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

I braced myself in the corner of the shaft and grabbed at one as he slid by.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

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

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

Outside, men sat in groups, some draped in blankets, while others carrying shovels and wearing mining boots appeared to be returning from nearby shafts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

While it was put out quickly, when firefighters entered the building they discovered it had spread to the lift shafts, where two lifts were stuck.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Two crossed arrows with a black N inked between the shafts.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

“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

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




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