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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

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

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

Papa turned again to the anvil and whammed it with the hammer.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

And as more enthusiasts join the fray, the price of anvils has risen.

From Seattle Times Dec. 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

But a decade ago, researchers found, using diamond anvils at outer core conditions, that iron conducts heat at least twice as fast as previously thought.

From Science Magazine Mar. 30, 2022

The ship bucked on swells, dove and slammed into anvils of water.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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