CHAMBERED Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

chambered

verb

past tense of chamber

as in housed

to provide with living quarters or shelter chambered the lost hikers in the barn until the next morning

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Recent Examples of chambered The programmable fuze is set via a data link as the round is chambered. — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026 The gun did not fire, prosecutors said, because no round was chambered. — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 23 Mar. 2026 The Department of Homeland Security later released a photograph of the weapon, which officials familiar with the evidence said appears to be a custom Sig Sauer P320 chambered in 9mm. — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026 Bies will succeed the Honorable Vicki Vial Taylor and will be chambered in Hastings in Dakota County. — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2025

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In 2023, Campbell’s closed its corporate headquarters in Ballantyne, which had once housed about 1,300 corporate employees.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2026
An elevator ride to the fourth floor brings you to where most of the museum’s collection is housed.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026

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That same month, another whale, this one a juvenile, was found lifeless and lodged among woody debris in a Washington State river, miles from the ocean.

— Ainslie Cruickshank, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026
Atlanta drivers were left shocked late Sunday night after a driver's legs were seen dangling from a vehicle lodged under an overpass.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

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