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chamber

[cheym-ber] / ˈtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
legislative body
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Newsom ordered the dismantling of San Quentin’s death row and execution chamber.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a similarly failed constitutional amendment for the upper congressional chamber last year.

From Slate Sep. 3, 2026

Before the war, trade between Kuwait and Iran was robust, totalling roughly $300 million in 2024, according to Kuwaiti media citing the two countries' joint chamber of commerce.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

To test that idea, Airapetian's team recreated conditions thought to resemble the atmosphere of early Earth inside a sealed chamber.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

I thought no more of Mrs. Fairfax; I thought no more of Grace Poole, or the laugh: in an instant, I was within the chamber.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

The tomb features an outer courtyard, rock-cut chapel and subterranean burial chambers.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 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

Because GRCop-42 has high thermal conductivity while maintaining its strength at extreme temperatures, it is used in aerospace systems, including liquid rocket engine combustion chambers.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

At 08:28 on Monday 7 July, an email from the judge's chambers popped into the inboxes of the lawyers in the case.

From BBC Aug. 22, 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

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 not greediness and chambering overtake me, And give me not over to a shameless mind.

From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Richard Green Moulton

“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




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