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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Comcast is spinning off the channels 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 • Oct. 15, 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

“That is what Julia has become! An albatross ’round my neck!”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood