winze

Scottish

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Recent Examples of winze In 1968 and 1969, the U.S. Bureau of Mines borrowed the tunnel and tested some blasting and drilling techniques in a gently sloping side channel called a winze. Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
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Noun
  • Because perhaps heartbreak is not only a curse, but also a language.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 20 June 2025
  • His thought that autism is a curse that destroys families IS the tragedy.
    Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Whatever the reason—gold lust, bad luck, a malediction—the Prince de Conty continues to bring ill fortune upon those in its ambit, even two hundred and seventy-eight years after its demise.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • Without faith, youth is open more to destructive secular influences similar to fatherless children being open to the maledictions of gangs rather than the counsels found in a loving and caring and attentive two-parent home.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2024

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“Winze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/winze. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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