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chamber

[cheym-ber] / ˈtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
legislative body
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LACO’s first nine seasons included a Monday night series when the theater, originally meant to be a chamber music hall, was otherwise dark.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Yet Gloria, like everyone else in this refined chamber piece, has more than one side to her nature.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

The KIT system creates the required pressure inside the combustion chamber instead.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

The monastery includes a prayer chamber carved into the mountainside, where the worshippers had gathered for the special prayer service.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

“What do you need a vacuum chamber for, anyway?” the boy-Human asked.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

This month, members of both parties introduced it in both chambers of Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 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

A parliamentary committee will review the urgency of the measure, which will then be examined by both deputies and senators and will only be thrown out if rejected by both chambers.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Excavations uncovered a funerary complex consisting of three limestone burial chambers containing Roman-era mummies and decorated wooden sarcophagi.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

Sealed in the dry underground chambers, the paintings had survived virtually intact for more than 17,000 years.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell

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

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

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 envying.”

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

This worthy cavalier discountenanced all idleness, rioting, chambering, and wantonness among his soldiery.

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving




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