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Their theory was that the descending column of water acted somewhat like a syringe, pushing air through the shaft as it fell.

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

Utility company Con Edison said a passing truck likely dislodged the manhole’s cover about 12 minutes before Gocaj parked her car and fell into the open shaft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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 robot climbed higher, and the shaft grew narrower.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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

The U.S. last year inflicted severe damage on the so-called Fordow site, also buried in a mountain, by dropping its most powerful bombs through ventilation shafts that went straight down to uranium enrichment facilities.

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

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

The light grew before them; great shafts pierced the roof.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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