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Recent Examples of millstone
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.
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Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
Indian atta is stone-ground, meaning the wheat kernels are crushed between millstones into a fine powder.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 13 Mar. 2025
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
Archaeologists discovered numerous traces of the medieval hamlet, including cooking pots, storage vases, millstones used to grind grain, and carbonized remnants of cereal grains and legumes.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
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Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
Indian atta is stone-ground, meaning the wheat kernels are crushed between millstones into a fine powder.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 13 Mar. 2025
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
Archaeologists discovered numerous traces of the medieval hamlet, including cooking pots, storage vases, millstones used to grind grain, and carbonized remnants of cereal grains and legumes.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for millstone
Noun
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Her reporting turns the accident into an albatross around their necks, tearing at their reputations and tugging at all the other skeletons in their closets.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Oct. 2025
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The entire crop of players with serious money left on their deals endured long, discouraging stretches this season where their contracts looked like albatrosses.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Fort Worth Arlington Heights came to Rough Rider Stadium on Thursday night, trying to keep its stranglehold on the top of the District 4-5A Division I football standings.—
Updated October 10,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Oct. 2025
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Volpe has done nothing to warrant a stranglehold on the position.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Millstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millstone. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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