albatross

Example Sentences

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“Other people look at it as an albatross around their neck.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Embracing election conspiracy theories was a political albatross for Republicans in states that weren’t completely red last year, with deniers losing every statewide bid in the swing states of Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

From Seattle Times

“It’s existed until now largely under the shadow of ‘A Raisin in the Sun,’ which is like an albatross around its neck,” said Joi Gresham, director of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust.

From Washington Post

“The Biden administration clearly knows that inflation is a political albatross. And they are looking for anything and everything to show American voters that they have a plan to fix the problem.”

From Seattle Times

In the midst of his “extraordinary, if predictable, doublespeak,” as The Times’s Roger Cohen called it, Putin draped the albatross of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq around America’s neck:

From New York Times