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

The Week Escape your echo chamber. —The Week Us, TheWeek, 19 May 2026

These decisions are made in an echo chamber, where status quo leaders reassure themselves that what worked before will continue to work. —Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026

Basically, today’s restaurants are built to be giant echo chambers. —Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 13 May 2026

Of course, all that was conceived in a haze of postwar broadcast optimism — before the echo chambers of social media, before the balkanization of politics and yes, before the recent resurgence of far-right parties. —Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for echo chamber

• antechamber
• bedchamber