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chamber

[chaym-ber] / ˈtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
legislative body
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As part of the programme, the young politicians are allowed to hold debates in the House of Commons chamber, on a day when MPs are not sitting, once a year.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, 35 of 100 seats in the Senate, the upper chamber, will also be up for grabs.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Iron and magnesium tend to become concentrated near the bottom of a magma chamber, while more soluble elements such as potassium remain closer to the top.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

For safe-keeping, the flag is displayed in very low light, giving the chamber a sacred feel, like a cathedral crypt.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

“If the passageways are that confined and narrow, how did the cabin boy ever drag the pirate’s treasure down to the chamber in the first place?”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

Many will argue that is because people live in echo chambers online, and don't want to hear other voices.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Two chambers, two vehicles, one bill they have not yet agreed on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

As in New Mexico, the final bill passed both chambers unanimously and enjoyed strong support from the governor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The tomb features an outer courtyard, rock-cut chapel and subterranean burial chambers.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

They passed dozens of arched doorways that opened into large chambers, staircases, and halls.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

The complex family tree of a Neolithic clan buried in a chambered tomb called Hazleton North shows the promise of DNA to reveal ancient relationships.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023

Other sites from the same period in history are close by, and include a stone circle at Torbreck and chambered cairn at Culduthel in Inverness.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2023

Maybe some drawings — especially the chambered spaces of domestic interiors, which can be quite complex — are more sophisticated than others in the subtlety of execution, suggesting skill developed over time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

Despite its many levels of jokes and meta-jokes, Inside is one of the most sincere artistic responses to the 21st century so far: a beautiful, intricate chambered nautilus shell filled with loathing.

From Slate ● May 31, 2021

Somewhere beneath all of that daintiness, chambered in all that neatness, lay the thing that clotted their dreams.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

Inspired by a hybrid of several technologies — pneumatics, mechanical springs and hydraulics — the semi-automatic rifle produces almost no recoil by transferring that energy into expelling shells and chambering the next rounds.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

The standard chambering for the Triple Lock was the .44 Special, although it was also offered in .38/40 and .45 Long Colt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally, Benellis are fast, spitting out empties and chambering fresh rounds more quickly than any other auto.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.”

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

Gin ye store the money ye hae scrapit by mony a hard bargain, some heir ye never saw 'ill gar it flee in chambering and wantonness.

From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren




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