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chamber

[chaym-ber] / ˈtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
legislative body
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As part of the programme, the young politicians are allowed to hold debates in the House of Commons chamber, on a day when MPs are not sitting, once a year.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, 35 of 100 seats in the Senate, the upper chamber, will also be up for grabs.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The firm was paid from the U.S. accounts of Misfit Technologies, a company whose Myanmar-based affiliate was a member of the chamber, according to a public lobbying disclosure filed by Mercury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Iron and magnesium tend to become concentrated near the bottom of a magma chamber, while more soluble elements such as potassium remain closer to the top.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

In the central chamber was a pen containing many cattle and a few goats.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Many will argue that is because people live in echo chambers online, and don't want to hear other voices.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Stakeholders currently are defined as anyone who lives, works or owns real property within the neighborhood boundaries, or community organizations like chambers of commerce or nonprofits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

People with higher inflammation tended to have thicker heart walls, smaller heart chambers and poorer heart filling - all changes which may develop quietly for years before progressing to heart failure.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Two chambers, two vehicles, one bill they have not yet agreed on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

They did, however, for his former friend at Monticello, who had spent the bulk of his adult life keeping his head and his heart in separate chambers of his personality.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

But his eyes are gray and chambered and shallow, and after a moment he returns to his spirals.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

The chambering machine is used only in clay or other soil which does not wash readily.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

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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