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Recent Examples of albatross
This fundamental misunderstanding turns the central bank into an albatross around the neck of an economy that desperately needs room to rebound.
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Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Instead, the islands are populated by penguins, seals, and birds like albatrosses.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 Apr. 2025
Active soaring wings are long, narrow and pointed, a more efficient design for albatrosses, gulls and gannets that are more dependent on wind currents to sustain long periods of flight over great distances.
—Ernie Cowan, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
The egg recently hatched to Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, who resides at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Honolulu, Hawaii.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
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Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Instead, the islands are populated by penguins, seals, and birds like albatrosses.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 Apr. 2025
Active soaring wings are long, narrow and pointed, a more efficient design for albatrosses, gulls and gannets that are more dependent on wind currents to sustain long periods of flight over great distances.
—Ernie Cowan, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
The egg recently hatched to Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, who resides at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Honolulu, Hawaii.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for albatross
Noun
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Its historic millstone quarries once produced grinding stones exported across Northern Europe.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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Golden aims to avoid expectations from becoming a millstone for a squad with all the elements to make a legitimate run at the school’s third national title.—
Edgar Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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By the time the sportswriter Sam Smith published a book about the Bulls’ 1990-91 season, in which Jordan and the Bulls finally broke the Pistons’ stranglehold on the Eastern Conference, Jordan was one of the most famous men on the planet.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
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The Knicks grabbed three of the first four games of the series, putting a stranglehold on the defending champions.—
Matt Levine,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
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“Albatross.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/albatross. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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