echo chamber

noun

: a room with sound-reflecting walls used for producing hollow or echoing sound effects
often used figuratively
Living in a kind of echo chamber of their own opinions, they pay attention to information that fits their conclusions and ignore information that does not.James Surowiecki

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Everyone knows it, except those sitting in the Sacramento echo chamber. Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025 And while a therapist should be supportive, therapy is not meant to be an echo chamber. Christina Caron, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Saturday's cartoons - losing it, pedal to the metal, and more Newsletter sign up By The Week US published 13 hours ago Subscribe to The Week Escape your echo chamber. The Week Us, theweek, 21 Dec. 2024 With all the interior trimmings evicted and a track-only Borla exhaust fitted, the car becomes a deafening echo chamber when its Coyote is breathing. Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for echo chamber

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of echo chamber was in 1842

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“Echo chamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/echo%20chamber. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

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