shaft
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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
In the X-Coupe, the vehicle’s shaft is directly driven by a Wankel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
I stood at the end of the shaft of light, and then one toe braved the darkness.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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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
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
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
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
She stared at it, and shafts of light from the full moon below streamed in through carved openings behind her.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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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
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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