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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
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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Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Jan. 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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If Provorov follows that more-likely trajectory, there’s high potential for a Day 1 albatross deal.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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Patrick Reed made an albatross — only the fourth in the U.S. Open since it starting tracking such records in 1983 — by holing out from 286 yards on the par-5 fourth.—
Doug Ferguson,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2025
Noun
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That railroad had a 30-percent stranglehold on containers across all rail carloads in 2024.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
28 July 2025
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India have taken a stranglehold of the ICC after the recent appointment of Sanjog Gupta as chief executive, hot on the heels of Indian compatriot Jay Shah’s ascension as chair.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
27 July 2025
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“Millstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millstone. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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