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antechamber

[an-tee-chaym-ber] / ˈæn tiˌtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
foyer
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They’re doing it from this little antechamber through 7 feet of tubing.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

An antechamber off the Oval Office was decorated with framed magazine covers of the 47th President.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Who should then be ushered into the same antechamber but Roland Dumas, former French foreign minister and right-hand man of ruling Socialist President François Mitterrand, Chirac’s arch-rival.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2024

The larynx functions like an antechamber to the windpipe, or trachea, with a flap of tissue called the epiglottis keeping food and drink from falling down the windpipe.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

They stopped dead at the sight of the girl and the tiger standing together in the glittering, lamplit antechamber.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks


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