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Recent Examples of millstone
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.
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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
Harris was weighed down by the same millstones that had hung around Biden’s neck up until his withdrawal from the race, notably voter concerns over immigration, inflation and the economy.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
Anyway, he’s been speaking to Jack Lang about the millstone around his neck that was the £72million fee Arsenal paid for him in 2019.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
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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
Harris was weighed down by the same millstones that had hung around Biden’s neck up until his withdrawal from the race, notably voter concerns over immigration, inflation and the economy.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
Anyway, he’s been speaking to Jack Lang about the millstone around his neck that was the £72million fee Arsenal paid for him in 2019.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for millstone
Noun
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On his second shot, the 2018 Masters champion hit a perfect shot with a fairway wood from 286 yards that just trickled into the hole for an albatross.—
Troy Finnegan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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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.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
23 May 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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“Millstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millstone. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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