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chamber

[chaym-ber] / ˈtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
legislative body
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When writer Christina Wyman discovered that her mother was active in a Facebook group for estranged parents, she found herself in a toxic echo chamber that was doing more harm than good.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026

Turns out that the dopamine chamber … it’s where they put rats to test different chemicals or in order to check their dopamine levels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The idea, he says, is that the whole hour feels like a film trailer, with viewers permanently waiting for the psychological pressure chamber to explode.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Working inside a refrigerated metal chamber, she carefully adjusts a mounted tumor, roughly the size of a pinkie fingernail, toward a sharp cutting blade.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

She and Leo didn’t seem to move, but suddenly they were three hundred feet down the corridor, at the entrance of the chamber.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

He defied recording studio conventions by bringing in natural light through large, soundproof windows instead of working in chambers sealed on all sides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The nation's spy chief, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation director-general Mike Burgess, warned last year politically motivated violence was among the agency's fastest growing security concerns, driven by "grievance narratives, conspiracies and online echo chambers".

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

That’s why stories about AI bots being put into virtual torture chambers aren’t just silly, but foregrounds the false notion that AI is capable of suffering.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

The plants produce hollow chambers where ants can live and also supply them with nutritious food bodies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Roza took the dog and the pies to her chambers in the tower, broke the pies into pieces, and offered them to the dog.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

The strike of the hammer on the chambered shell needs a specific amount of force to detonate the primer.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2023

He’ll stand in front of the TV on one foot with his knee chambered just like van Damme.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Let us walk honestly, as in the Day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings

Each was armed with one of the new 44-40 Winchesters, just out, and with a brace of Colt's revolvers, chambering the same-sized cartridge as the rifle.

From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by Stewart Edward White


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