lame duck
Example Sentences
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A “lame duck” Fed chair may find it harder to muster the authority necessary to unite a fractured board.
From MarketWatch
Before embracing the lame duck narrative, we should instead be asking two simple questions.
From Salon
"I'm not sure he's a lame duck yet," Garret Martin, professor of international relations at American University, told AFP.
From Barron's
Suzuki agreed to a one-year contract, which puts him in the uncomfortable position of being a lame duck before he manages his first game.
From Los Angeles Times
At the 2007 White House press dinner, Bush jokingly insisted that he wasn’t becoming a “lame duck…unless of course Cheney accidentally shoots me in the leg.”
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