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Recent Examples of albatross
The company’s issues underscored how its reputation for innovation, once considered a fundamental element of its brand, has become an albatross, fueling angst among employees and frustration among customers.
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Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
All four of their respective teams matched, and those players each became albatrosses on those contracts.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
What’s become clear is what Wall Street thought was a bonus for the company, Musk’s prominent role in the Trump administration as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, has become an albatross.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
On the one hand, the 1,000-yard drought may have become a recruiting albatross for the coaches.
—Seth Emerson, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
All four of their respective teams matched, and those players each became albatrosses on those contracts.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
What’s become clear is what Wall Street thought was a bonus for the company, Musk’s prominent role in the Trump administration as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, has become an albatross.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
On the one hand, the 1,000-yard drought may have become a recruiting albatross for the coaches.
—Seth Emerson, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for albatross
Noun
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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
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Now comes a cataclysm in the country’s foremost blue state that is traceable, in part, to irrational progressive priorities and may prove a millstone around the neck of one of the foremost talents on the Democratic bench, California governor Gavin Newsom.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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When a mentally disturbed neighbor sets herself on fire and a slumlord tries to extort money from them, the family gets tangled in the corruption that keeps a stranglehold on the slum’s inhabitants.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Then, as the pre-draft process continued, Miami's Cam Ward gained a stranglehold on that spot.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Albatross.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/albatross. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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