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Recent Examples of albatross
Horrifying images of dead albatrosses with clusters of colorful plastic spilling from their bodies, turtles eating plastic bags and whales entangled in plastic fishing nets are testament to how this pollution is affecting marine life.
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Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
In all, this contract is anything but an albatross around the neck of the 49ers.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
Millions were spent on the cleanup of the soil, only for the debt to act as an albatross around the properties’ neck, tied to the metropolitan district on the land.
—The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
This fundamental misunderstanding turns the central bank into an albatross around the neck of an economy that desperately needs room to rebound.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
In all, this contract is anything but an albatross around the neck of the 49ers.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
Millions were spent on the cleanup of the soil, only for the debt to act as an albatross around the properties’ neck, tied to the metropolitan district on the land.
—The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
This fundamental misunderstanding turns the central bank into an albatross around the neck of an economy that desperately needs room to rebound.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for albatross
Noun
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But this also turned out to be a millstone around the agency’s neck.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2025
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Its historic millstone quarries once produced grinding stones exported across Northern Europe.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
Noun
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Yet money may not be a match for Trump’s stranglehold on the party base.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
1 July 2025
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Garcia has a stranglehold on third base for the Royals in a way that has not been seen since Mike Moustakas during their last championship window.—
Hunter Mulholland,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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“Albatross.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/albatross. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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