chalice
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To end the Iran-Iraq war, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made the difficult call during a high level of debate to end the fighting, a decision he likened to drinking from a poisoned chalice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
“You need fire and you need a chalice. To me, that fire is my creativity. It’s my birthright to create. And that chalice is the community that holds me.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026
He said some people had warned him that the job would be a "poisoned chalice".
From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025
The job is a huge opportunity but also a poisoned chalice.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025
“So that’s how it creates energy. Through the...tension between the...magnetic chalice and...the...spin louvers.”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Vocabulary lists containing chalice
"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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The Poet X
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Novel Study: Macbeth, Acts 1–2
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