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muffler

[muhf-ler] / ˈmʌf lər /


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He even came to see me in his second-hand car, which was lacking a muffler, and we drove noisily over to Bass Lake and went swimming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

Kelce has gone the extra mile, buying a onetime muffler shop to expand Operation Breakthrough’s campus and create the Ignition Lab, in which students convert dilapidated jalopies into lacquered, showroom-ready electric vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024

According to court documents, a Portsmouth homeowner was working on his property in September 2020 when he heard the loud muffler of a passing car.

From Washington Times ● May 3, 2023

Dirty, super-heated air from a car’s engine passes through the honey-comb chambers of a catalytic converter before entering the muffler and exiting through the tail pipe.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2022

Somehow he had kept hold of it throughout our near disaster at sea, but now it was stove in on one side like a bent muffler pipe.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

This is a sport that named its bowl games for refrigerators, mufflers and weed eaters, and concludes a current one with the bleak, ritual toasting of an anthropomorphic Pop Tart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

There has been talk that mufflers could be used if the engines were considered too loud, despite the obvious logical inconsistency of that as an approach.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

The price increases have been “modest,” he wrote, and on lower-priced products such as floor mats and mufflers.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025

And it requires the right clothes — mufflers, fur collars, wool caps, big boots, gloves — which communicate coziness even as they underscore the cold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

The Cadillac, with both mufflers gone, sounded like a heavy bomber coming in on a wing and a prayer.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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