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chamber

[cheym-ber] / ˈtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
legislative body
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The legislation has stalled for lack of sufficient support in the upper chamber of Congress.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

There is also the possibility that the eruption could become significantly more explosive if seawater reaches the shallow magma chamber developing within the growing underwater volcano.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

"I saw the experts working together, the conservators, the people who really know about the risks of moving the object," said Ricketts, who now sits in the UK's unelected upper chamber the House of Lords.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

There was some interesting stagecraft where they were read sequentially from the chamber but handed out in the pressroom together.

From Slate Jul. 6, 2026

Higher and higher they climbed, through one chamber to the next.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Many chambers of commerce and businesses that want to lure customers later in the day generally support it, while agricultural interests and some industries oppose it.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

In June, both chambers of Congress approved the housing bill - called the 21st Century Road to Housing Act - in a rare moment of bipartisan agreement.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

There are a handful of additional days in which just one of the two chambers is scheduled to be in session, though typically not much business takes place during the dog days of summer.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

Hawaii’s law is viewpoint neutral and applies to unions just as it applies to chambers of commerce.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

She leapt from bed and stalked through her chambers, half expecting to find him sitting in a chair, a hand upon his sword.

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

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

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

Although the .22 Hornet�the only chambering for the single-shot Model 40�is a centerfire cartridge, the rifle employs a modified rimfire action.

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 Gillette, Halbert Powers




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