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

Examples of echo chamber in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Relationship experts point out that peer validation and social media echo chambers are largely to blame. — Ethan M. Stone, USA Today, 20 July 2026

At high-achieving schools like hers, the campus culture can turn into an echo chamber where Advanced Placement classes, standardized test scores and Ivy League aspirations dominate hallway conversation. — Kayla Lee, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

Increasingly online, Americans started populating echo chambers and imbibing conspiracies, and distrust of the media grew. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026

Loeb stresses that the council, which does not have a budget outside of some reimbursement for travel expenses for members, is not intended to be an echo chamber. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 2 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for echo chamber

• antechamber
• bedchamber