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

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The Week Escape your echo chamber. The Week Us, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026 The downside of the hyper-personalization of content that LLMs allow is the creation of echo chambers, where consumers are fed ideas which already mirror their own. Francesca Cassidy, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026 When Kent countered that Levin was in his own echo chamber, Levin snapped. Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2026 On social media, there’s an echo chamber—everyone is talking about it. Mehrunnisa Wani, Forbes.com, 2 Mar. 2026 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 23 Apr. 2026.

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