anvil
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To meet these challenges, the team built a diamond anvil cell system combined with laser heating and high-temperature imaging.
From Science Daily • Dec. 26, 2025
The balls, which were delivered directly from the manufacturer to the officiating crew before each game, could be so stiff that kickers felt like they were driving their foot into an anvil.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Every fourth or fifth joke has the air of having been hammered out on an anvil, and a few might have been better left in the smithery.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025
One space had a section in the floor that was likely to have held an anvil as archaeologists found bits of broken metal around it.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2025
He took the envelope by a tiny corner and put it on the anvil, and then he scrubbed his hands in the half-barrel of black water into which he plunged hot iron.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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