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albatross

[al-buh-traws, -tros] / ˈæl bəˌtrɔs, -ˌtrɒs /


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Six months to a year from now, Absolute Resolve could be forgotten in the rush of greater events, look like one of America’s greatest foreign-policy successes, or become an albatross around the administration’s neck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

But now that guarantee is an albatross, with AI skeptics worried OpenAI won’t be able to pay.

From Barron's • Dec. 13, 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

It reminded her of the line from Mr. Coleridge’s strange poem about the ancient mariner and the albatross.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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