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Recent Examples of albatross
Now comes an arguably harder chapter: Making sure the bill and its Medicaid cuts don’t become a political albatross for Republicans.
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Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 1 July 2025
This will be a political albatross for the Republicans.
—CBS News, 29 June 2025
That colossal production, which involved the construction of villages in which to film and the onscreen involvement of the host country’s armed forces, began as a lark and turned into an albatross.
—Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
But, in retrospect, the 2018 decision that struck down federal laws against sports betting, by a 6-3 vote, has turned into an albatross.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 26 June 2025
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Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 1 July 2025
This will be a political albatross for the Republicans.
—CBS News, 29 June 2025
That colossal production, which involved the construction of villages in which to film and the onscreen involvement of the host country’s armed forces, began as a lark and turned into an albatross.
—Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
But, in retrospect, the 2018 decision that struck down federal laws against sports betting, by a 6-3 vote, has turned into an albatross.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for albatross
Noun
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Could Gladys be free of this ducal millstone around her neck?—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
7 July 2025
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But this also turned out to be a millstone around the agency’s neck.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2025
Noun
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Registered Democrats make up the largest portion of the electorate and, obviously, most aren’t happy with the GOP stranglehold on Washington.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
22 July 2025
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Yes, there will be a transition away from CPUs to GPUs, and the NVIDIA stranglehold will take another 12 to 15 months to break, but systems from cloud to laptops will be vastly stimulated by this change.—
Forrester,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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