muffler
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What were they doing to develop “anti-smog muffler devices”? A month later, Hahn got back the first of many testy, patronizing responses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
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
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
It wasn’t long ago we were America’s Singapore, a nanny state that might ticket you for anything from jaywalking to spitting to driving around with a noisy muffler.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
The muffler on my beat-up black Honda had fallen off somewhere between Pittsburgh and Clover, which meant everyone in Lacks Town heard each time I passed.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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
