albatross
Example Sentences
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But now that guarantee is an albatross, with AI skeptics worried OpenAI won’t be able to pay.
From Barron's • Dec. 13, 2025
Before long, that pact had become an albatross for the Broncos, who benched him in his second season and then released him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
Decades later, the promise is an albatross for many, thanks in part to years of student-loan policy changes, conflicting information from servicers and system backlogs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025
Comcast is spinning off the cable networks because it believes the mature outlets face a bleak future due to pay TV cord-cutting and are an albatross weighing down its stock price.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025
Like today, when he had wanted to keep the entry on the albatross, she had agreed to read it.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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