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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The safeguard was designed to break up online echo chambers of harmful content. Olivia Carville, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 Aligning feeds with values may open a possible door out of echo chambers in a way that unmediated exposure to the other side does not. Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026 For those outside the echo chamber of tech, though, responses to the merch have been less charitable. T.m. Brown, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026 In a time of echo chambers, O’Sullivan is both anomaly and antidote. Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 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 25 Aug. 2026.

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