elephant
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While celebrating City's WSL success in the Co-Op Live after-party of a club parade on Monday, Shaw was asked to address the "elephant in the room" in front of 19,000 fans.
From BBC • May 25, 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
Sometimes, the letter writer may be asking the wrong question about the right problem, or they could be ignoring the elephant in the room.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
As always, the air was filled with the smell of rotting whale carcasses and the sound of elephant seals bellowing and belching on the beach.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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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