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chamber

[chaym-ber] / ˈtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
legislative body
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Alain Di Crescenzo, president of France's chamber of commerce, said businesses were worried.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The candidates elected to the Senate on Nov. 3 — one third of the chamber — will serve a six-year term beginning in January.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in line to become speaker should Democrats win control of the chamber, has said his party would repeal tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

When writer Christina Wyman discovered that her mother was active in a Facebook group for estranged parents, she found herself in a toxic echo chamber that was doing more harm than good.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026

Mrs. Malvolio had just crawled into the chamber.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

To confirm their findings, the team also used an independent measurement technique involving airtight chambers placed directly on the soil surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 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

United Contractors, National Diversity Coalition and dozens of local chambers of commerce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The large front chambers I thought especially grand: and some of the third-storey rooms, though dark and low, were interesting from their air of antiquity.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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: 14.

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

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


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