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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Innovation doesn’t flourish in echo chambers dominated by conformity and fear.
—Ashley B. Stewart, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Small men with loud voices who hold court over internet echo chambers, like Andrew Tate, offer them simplistic answers for all of their complicated fears and insecurities.
—Reshma Saujani, Time, 19 May 2025
As gateways beyond the echo chamber, public libraries provide resources needed to understand policy proposals or evaluate electoral candidates through open access to government data, legislative records and diverse media sources.
—Laura Backstrom, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
For American politicians to abandon us when there are people who support protecting us from discrimination feels like an issue of echo chambers and of folks not seeing a broad cultural movement that would change their behavior.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
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Ashley B. Stewart, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Small men with loud voices who hold court over internet echo chambers, like Andrew Tate, offer them simplistic answers for all of their complicated fears and insecurities.
—Reshma Saujani, Time, 19 May 2025
As gateways beyond the echo chamber, public libraries provide resources needed to understand policy proposals or evaluate electoral candidates through open access to government data, legislative records and diverse media sources.
—Laura Backstrom, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
For American politicians to abandon us when there are people who support protecting us from discrimination feels like an issue of echo chambers and of folks not seeing a broad cultural movement that would change their behavior.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for echo chamber
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“Echo chamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/echo%20chamber. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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