shaft
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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
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
And yet, Gellar has gotten the shaft time and again, unable to fully break free from the characters she’s known for to craft a new on-screen persona that fans can fall in love with.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026
“A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note in music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if its mother keeps it tidy,” answered Henry.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
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It’s not clear where the ventilation shafts are at Pickaxe or if they lead into the heart of the site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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
Emergency workers said they had rescued six miners from the shafts in Sutatausa, north of the capital, Bogotá.
From BBC ● May 5, 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
She activated her headlights, and suddenly bright shafts of light were beaming out from her eyes and illuminating the whole mountaintop.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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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 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
Without even trying, she’d shafted her best friend.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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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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