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anvil

[an-vil] / ˈæn vɪl /
NOUN
blacksmith
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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

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

Les Capon, project manager with AOC Archaeology, said he believed part of the area could have been a blacksmith's workshop after discovering evidence of a forge and an anvil.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2025

One day he was looking for the small anvil that he used for laminating metals and he could not remember its name.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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