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chamber

[cheym-ber] / ˈtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
legislative body
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a similarly failed constitutional amendment for the upper congressional chamber last year.

From Slate Sep. 3, 2026

Building the facilities needed to keep pace with demand was especially challenging, defence expert Maximilian Epp from the chamber of commerce told AFP.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

A packed Commons chamber, with curveball questions, hostile opposition politicians and the biggest TV and online audience of the week will be a world away from his nine years as Mayor of Greater Manchester.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

But it also meant many in tech also have just been talking to each other in an echo chamber of their own creation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

This last blow overcame her, and she knelt by Beaufort’s coffin weeping bitterly, when my father entered the chamber.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

It appears, for instance, on the website of the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, a lobbying organization comprising health insurers and pro-business groups such as local chambers of commerce.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Afterward, the parties met in the Manhattan chambers of U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

At 08:28 on Monday 7 July, an email from the judge's chambers popped into the inboxes of the lawyers in the case.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Already set to retire at the end of the year, it’s becoming clear that McConnell is never coming back to the Senate chambers.

From Salon Aug. 3, 2026

There was nowhere in the castle to summon or hide a creature like that, except for the endless, forgotten chambers and tunnels running beneath it.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

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: 14.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

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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