albatross
Example Sentences
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But now that guarantee is an albatross, with AI skeptics worried OpenAI won’t be able to pay.
From Barron's • Dec. 13, 2025
Before long, that pact had become an albatross for the Broncos, who benched him in his second season and then released him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
Partridge was once an "albatross" around Coogan's neck, but he returns to him nowadays because he "wants to", not because he has to.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025
He likened his association with Epstein to "an albatross around my neck", adding he felt "profoundly upset that I was taken in" by a "charismatic criminal liar".
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025
He was the one who had shot the albatross, and yet in the end we pitied him.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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