elephant
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“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
But it always comes back to the elephant in the chat.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
By not actually addressing the elephant in the room, “Michael” makes its subject look like a bona fide creep.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026
True to its name, the island presented them with an elephant seal on landing.
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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