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Recent Examples of albatross
Injuries — plus the inability to move Beal’s albatross contract — led Phoenix to becoming one of the NBA’s worst defenses, and Budenholzer has now been fired twice in the last three years.
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025
Other community members advocated against what has become an albatross for the city and the district — how to pay for the additional $175 million in nonteacher pensions that the city has paid and now wants CPS to repay.
—Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
With clapboard hulls, brick keels and carpeted decks, these battleships were more likely infested with squirrels, more likely circled by pigeons than albatrosses.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2025
This experiment in engineering a star earned diminishing returns, and as Mansfield’s screen career waned in the 1960s, her image became more albatross than asset.
—Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2025
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025
Other community members advocated against what has become an albatross for the city and the district — how to pay for the additional $175 million in nonteacher pensions that the city has paid and now wants CPS to repay.
—Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
With clapboard hulls, brick keels and carpeted decks, these battleships were more likely infested with squirrels, more likely circled by pigeons than albatrosses.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2025
This experiment in engineering a star earned diminishing returns, and as Mansfield’s screen career waned in the 1960s, her image became more albatross than asset.
—Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for albatross
Noun
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Could Gladys be free of this ducal millstone around her neck?—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
7 July 2025
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But this also turned out to be a millstone around the agency’s neck.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2025
Noun
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That railroad had a 30-percent stranglehold on containers across all rail carloads in 2024.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
28 July 2025
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India have taken a stranglehold of the ICC after the recent appointment of Sanjog Gupta as chief executive, hot on the heels of Indian compatriot Jay Shah’s ascension as chair.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
27 July 2025
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“Albatross.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/albatross. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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