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exhaust

[ig-zawst] / ɪgˈzɔst /




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The volunteers, he says, "really get their teeth into these old cases" and "exhaust every avenue".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The piston’s down position allows exhaust to escape and the combustion chamber to refill with fuel and air.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Instead, it has an oddly shaped chunk of metal at its heart, spinning inside an oblong chamber in which the usual cycle of compression, combustion and exhaust takes place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

It was March, and if you rolled down the window, the only scent was exhaust.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

He got up and went out to the verandah; the sudden hot air, the roar of his neighbor’s generator, the smell of diesel exhaust fumes brought a lightness to his head.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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