chamber
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Carlos Singer, chief policy officer for the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, said in written comments submitted ahead of Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting that the chamber supports “the motion’s core relief provision.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Connecting the combustion chamber to a turbine and converting its intense combustion into electricity created an additional engineering challenge.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The monastery includes a prayer chamber carved into the mountainside, where the worshippers had gathered for the special prayer service.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The Daily Telegraph said it had obtained unredacted plans that showed Beijing reportedly plans to construct a "concealed chamber" among "secret rooms" underneath the embassy which would be close to sensitive underground communications cables.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
The reactor is surrounded by a containment structure, a chamber of steel-reinforced concrete as much as 5 feet thick—strong enough to hold the contents of the reactor if the steel vessel fails.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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“Obviously I’m here for another term,” Justice Alito, 76, says a month later, during a rare summertime visit to his chambers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But during a search of his vehicle, investigators said, they recovered a revolver and additional ammunition, as well as speed loaders, which allow multiple chambers of a gun to be loaded at once.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Already set to retire at the end of the year, it’s becoming clear that McConnell is never coming back to the Senate chambers.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
A parliamentary committee will review the urgency of the measure, which will then be examined by both deputies and senators and will only be thrown out if rejected by both chambers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
He considered the chambers and his own lodging as temporary residences, and advised me to look out at once for a “fashionable crib” near Hyde Park, in which he could have “a shake-down.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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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
He’ll stand in front of the TV on one foot with his knee chambered just like van Damme.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
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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
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Let not greediness and chambering overtake me, And give me not over to a shameless mind.
From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Moulton, Richard Green
This worthy cavalier discountenanced all idleness, rioting, chambering, and wantonness among his soldiery.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington
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