air filter
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Thirty minutes later, she was changing the car’s dirty air filter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Swap out your air filter: A clogged filter chokes airflow, forcing your AC to guzzle more power to do the same job.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Or that we must send our kids to crowded classrooms, but are not allowed to even donate an air filter to reduce our risk of life-changing infection.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025
An inexpensive air filter with expensive replacement filters is less of a bargain than it appears, and the same goes for a well-priced device that only effectively filters half a room, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025
In the laboratory, Mr. Loomis also had the world’s only radiation-proof suit, and he had the air filter and the water filter.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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