anvil
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But Higginbotham recently changed his mind, buying a brand new $51,000 Jeep Wrangler in a bluish-gray color called anvil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Nomura analysts warn more drastic measures may be on the anvil.
From Barron's ● May 17, 2026
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
“Being back in the studio helps give me a sense of normalcy,” Berkofsky said as he hammered the red-hot Damascus steel on an anvil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
The cloud spread like an anvil, carrying ash somewhat west and north but concentrating the spread in the east.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Bynum uses allusions like anvils, following up that sour note by cueing the ballad “The Beast in Me” by Nick Lowe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
What are you going to do, ban anvils?
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
Those standards require that helmet manufacturers evaluate their product’s safety performance by dropping a helmeted dummy head made of magnesium about 6.5 feet onto a variety of steel anvils.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2023
Each stroke Wednesday night seemed a little harder until, by the end of the match, she was delivering hammers and anvils.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2022
Moving her lips rapidly, she held her rosary tightly and recited each Hail Mary with a desperate gravity, as though she were flinging anvils at the gates of Heaven.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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