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Their theory was that the descending column of water acted somewhat like a syringe, pushing air through the shaft as it fell.

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

Italian Andrea Pavan said he is "optimistic" about a return to playing after he fell down an open lift shaft in February.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

The piston rotates a crank shaft, creating movement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

“See it? That’s a shaft of light shining down through some kind of slats!”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

The area has been a focus of a government crackdown on illegal mining, with soldiers deployed alongside police to tackle criminal networks operating around abandoned mine shafts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 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

Under normal conditions, fresh air enters the facility through two primary shafts and exits through two separate shafts.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

And it was the site of the UK's most northerly deep coal mine, before the last shafts closed in the 1970s.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Taran loosed his arrow, and heard the shafts of Eilonwy and Gurgi whistle past him.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

In her view, she was shafted into the “what’s mine is yours” agreement.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

"I didn't anticipate that if things went wrong that we would be shafted, to put it bluntly".

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

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

Looking at the shafted sun, Francie had that same fine feeling that came when she recalled the poem they recited in school.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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