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muffler

[muhf-ler] / ˈmʌf lər /


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Hummel’s automotive trade school helped him land his first job at a muffler shop in 2007.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

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

Not too long ago, I was driving to get an estimate to install a new muffler on my truck.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 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

The makes, the models, the mufflers that could furnish even the junkiest car with an impressive sound — how every detail felt like a secret he was revealing just to me, his only child.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024

Despite the park’s nonconformity, during the 1950s organized tournaments and other games were played there almost every day, even in winter, with players wrapped in mufflers and hats, awkwardly moving their pieces with gloved hands.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady


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