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as in injustice
unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this
the homeowners who were bought out are convinced they got the shaft in that deal
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Recent Examples of shaft
The 8-inch blending shaft is another plus.
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Olivia Tarantino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
The brand’s signature protein-repairing peptide simultaneously takes a journey into the individual hair shaft to repair any damage, helping tackle a lack of volume on a long-term basis.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
At the end of Season 2, Broadway thespian Ben Glenroy was poisoned by stage producer Donna DiMeo — then revived just long enough for her son, Cliff, to shove him down an elevator shaft in Season 3.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 16 Sep. 2025
The stairs would eventually circle around an elevator shaft.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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Olivia Tarantino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
The brand’s signature protein-repairing peptide simultaneously takes a journey into the individual hair shaft to repair any damage, helping tackle a lack of volume on a long-term basis.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
At the end of Season 2, Broadway thespian Ben Glenroy was poisoned by stage producer Donna DiMeo — then revived just long enough for her son, Cliff, to shove him down an elevator shaft in Season 3.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 16 Sep. 2025
The stairs would eventually circle around an elevator shaft.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shaft
Noun
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Ensure your vehicle is visible to others by using low-beam headlights, which also activate your taillights.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Sep. 2025
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Birds usually don’t show up on radar, but during fall migration, huge numbers fly at altitudes within the radar beam, typically 1,000–3,000 feet at night.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Nashville Tennessean,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Or some good ol’ corn on the cob, or long broccolini spears.—
Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
25 Sep. 2025
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Hence, Defendants' desperate need to defame with a partisan spear rather than report with an authentic looking glass.—
Jenna Sundel
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The photographs at issue showed a group of agents taking the knee during one of the demonstrations following the May 2020 killing of Floyd, a death that led to a national reckoning over policing and racial injustice and sparked widespread anger after millions of people saw video of the arrest.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Sep. 2025
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There is no question that the study of history and its conflicts, injustices and exclusions can be dispiriting.—
Annie Polland,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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Furthermore, vitamin C works with vitamin E to protect your skin against harmful UV rays.—
Isabel Vasquez RD LDN,
Health,
29 Sep. 2025
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Solar Bay, meanwhile, has the same cross-platform appeal (and phone-OS compatibility), but is meant for systems that support ray tracing.—
Wendy Sheehan Donnell,
PC Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
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Those athletes are the two most recent Olympic javelin champions, the first men to do so from Asian countries.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The senior placed first at the Div. 1 championship in both javelin and discus.—
Brian Roach,
Boston Herald,
6 July 2025
Noun
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Winning another ring can wash away a lot of wrongs.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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But the most spectacular aspect of Nuestra Tierra may be its use of drone camerawork, and the way Martel uses the unsettling stillness of a drone as the eye of an impassive god, looking down at the wrongs carried out by those on the ground.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2025
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Whether a cell in 1598 played a part in conceiving of the scrawny, hobbled hidalgo with a cardboard visor and a bent lance is arguable, but Cervantes’ far more traumatic enslavement from 1571 until 1576 must have formed his intimate comprehension of the difference between freedom and servitude.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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At a handful of locations, these spikes extended out to nearly a meter, looking more like lances than anything needed to ward off a close-in attack.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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Roundabouts help eliminate the types of crashes more likely to cause serious injuries or death.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Six were taken to area hospitals with injuries and were listed in stable condition Friday afternoon.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Shaft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shaft. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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