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
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
As the men spoke softly, one of them spun a small shaft on a flat piece of wood, sliding his palms back and forth and made a small fire that quickly built into a flame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Zooey was sitting in the main shaft of sunlight in the room.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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While regular mining continues in parts, there are also hundreds of abandoned shafts along the main gold reef.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
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
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
Cobwebs adorn the air between archways, while thin shafts of light slice through the darkness to dot the floor below.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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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
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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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