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chamber

[chaym-ber] / ˈtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
legislative body
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Senate in New Hampshire, becoming the first openly gay man ever sent to that chamber, and part of the margin that handed Democrats the Senate.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would not seek re-election as the party's leader in the chamber.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

First elected to Congress in 2018, Omar became the first Somali-American and one of the first Muslim women to serve in the chamber.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Clearly, “Ryan’s Daughter” failed to remind the cognoscenti of Lean’s skill at chamber dramas like “Brief Encounter.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

We entered the room at the end of the hall, a windowless chamber lit by gaslights.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Never before have Latinos occupied the top spots in both chambers of the Legislature and the governor’s mansion simultaneously, Rivas told the cheering crowd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Losing candidates in both House and Senate races can file contests, with slightly different processes in each of the two chambers.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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

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

They found a loaded 9mm handgun in the apartment, but the pistol didn’t have any shots chambered at the time police inspected it.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 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

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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