elephant
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Both are about to learn it is one elephant, with three sides and one body — and it is not in a good mood.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
But no one could ignore the elephant in the room.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
“Hundreds of thousands of pages of regulation, an army of regulators, and they can’t see plain-vanilla interest-rate risk. Truly they missed an elephant in the room,” Cochrane said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
“He didn’t address the elephant in the room,” one delegate told me, referring to the Piker controversy.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026
And then I was afraid, because all around us as we walked along were fresh elephant and buffalo tracks.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
Vocabulary lists containing elephant
East Asia - Middle School
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East Asia - Introductory
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East Asia - High School
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