elephant
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But no one could ignore the elephant in the room.
From Barron's • May 19, 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
Eventually passengers were able to leave the ship zipping away on Zodiac boats and make their way to the island to see its main residents: penguins, fur seals and elephant seals.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
“He didn’t address the elephant in the room,” one delegate told me, referring to the Piker controversy.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026
Marco Rossi was in the third ring, hosing down an elephant and scrubbing her wrinkled gray skin with a long-handled deck brush.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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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