muffle
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More prosperity: Active noise cancellation has gotten good enough to muffle airplane noise and it’s almost there for human voices in offices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
I watched as the woman cuffed the phone receiver, attempting, ironically, to muffle the private information she was giving to a 13-year-old.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2023
Neustadter, an executive producer here as well, notes, “When we meet Clare in our series, she’s trying to muffle her pain, but it’s always with her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
They're so, so loud that it doesn't matter where you turn it on or try to muffle it, it's just super loud.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2023
Danny tried to cover his ears but it didn’t muffle the sound.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Mr. Orhan offsets the novel’s magical realism with plainspoken prose that muffles Dilara’s increasingly volatile desires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
The visible clutter sets off a contagious, slightly embarrassed giggle, which she muffles with her hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
The design of hearing aids muffles or blocks almost all of the natural unamplified sounds that stream into your ear canal.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
And again, they can detect this even if Zoom muffles a user’s audio.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2023
The layer of pine needles that muffles my footsteps also makes tracking animals harder when I need their trails to find water.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
Several muffled booms were heard in the distance.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
Then he heard muffled crying, and started to dig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Combined with the coloured, shimmering floor and walls, and a soundtrack of muffled voices, gongs and bird calls, it all creates a powerful if unnerving feeling of floating in another realm.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
Overall, sounds would be quieter and slightly muffled, and it would also take longer to reach you than it would on Earth.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
Inside, the house is dark and muffled, silent but for the tick of the grandfather clock in the parlor, the cough of a boarder on the second floor.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
"But a quantum computer acts like noise-canceling headphones that compare combinations of answers, amplifying the right ones while muffling the wrong ones."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
He dropped his face in his hands, muffling his voice.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
He closed the door behind him, muffling the sound and smell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
The strings’ opening melody in the Rachmaninoff had Romantic grandeur and beguiling translucence, blanketing but not muffling the piano’s arpeggios with gauzy tone.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2024
Dean produced a woolen hat, which Harry placed carefully upon Dobby’s head, muffling his batlike ears.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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