chamber
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We speed through his working-class beginnings and his sometimes-awkward experiences as a teacher, choirmaster, chamber musician and performer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
When the concrete was placed inside a carbonation chamber, it captured 1.2 grams of CO2 per day.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
He then led his MSPs out of the chamber, to jeers from the rest of the parliament.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
They think of the cortex as a chamber holding a formless cloud or jelly driven by a mysterious "vital force."
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Cue the CRA, which lets lawmakers overturn a regulation with a simple majority vote of both chambers and the President’s signature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Even if the party were to win control of both chambers of Congress in November's elections, there are no guarantees of swift action as it would have to unite behind one proposal.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Two chambers, two vehicles, one bill they have not yet agreed on.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
Princess Nehemia was safely in her chambers, surrounded by her guards.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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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
In 2012, one in five rifles sold chambered in .223 Remington was AR-15-type rifles, according to the research firm Southwick Associates Inc.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
Somewhere beneath all of that daintiness, chambered in all that neatness, lay the thing that clotted their dreams.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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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
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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
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This worthy cavalier discountenanced all idleness, rioting, chambering, and wantonness among his soldiery.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
"Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness," &c.
From Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by John Aubrey
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