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chamber

[cheym-ber] / ˈtʃeɪm bər /


NOUN
legislative body
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Though Senate rules bar Hanagan from lobbying anyone in that congressional chamber for a year, his disclosure makes clear he will be in contact with members of the House and their staff.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Inside that chamber, the two incoming jets collide.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

Giorgia Meloni described the narrow defeat in the chamber of deputies as a "missed opportunity for Italians"

From BBC Jul. 15, 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

All I could find was an ancient chamber pot that had been the drinking bowl for the cat.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

The two chambers had disagreed on approach, however.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

“The brick is like a 3-D checkerboard,” he said, explaining that it’s made up of a patchwork of blocks and open chambers with small passages throughout the stack for the heat to bounce around.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

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

In an emergency, the containment should trap gases that might escape from the inner chambers, but we rely on the reactor vessel to keep a nuclear reaction—and the radiation it produces—contained.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

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

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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