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hilts

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plural of hilt

as in shafts

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The two elevators now form a pair of glass-and-steel shafts built into the canyon wall.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2026
Having seen the shift from hickory to metal shafts, Flynn was also ahead of his time in his ability to foresee a distance problem in golf, an issue the professional game plans to address with a ball rollback in 2028.

— Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 16 June 2026

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The absence of depictions of bows and arrows in many pinturas rupestres may indicate that the groups inhabiting the Serra da Capivara did not use them as weapons.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026
One option couldn’t be any cuter with its black cats and purple bows, while another features light pink checks with cheerful jack-o-lanterns and pink bows.

— Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2026

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Those high-spending developers are generally working on Greenfield projects, where AI coding agents have clean feedback loops and iterate on bug fixes and new functionality.

— Tim Keary, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Special attention was paid to preserving the signature details of the 501, like the nearly five-foot back pocket, oversized back patch and belt loops.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026

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For survivors scattered around the world scrambling for sanctuary, Toon and his group say Australia might emerge as a comparative safe-haven, with only minor disruptions to its cultivation of wheat and other crops.

— Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Though designed for crops engineered to tolerate it, dicamba is widely considered a volatile herbicide because of its tendency to drift.

— Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

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