albatross
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Tata Steel's purchase of Corus Steel, for instance, turned out be an "albatross" around the company's neck for decades, says Mukherjea.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
But now that guarantee is an albatross, with AI skeptics worried OpenAI won’t be able to pay.
From Barron's • Dec. 13, 2025
“Other people look at it as an albatross around their neck.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 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
Cape pigeons often darted and flitted around the boat, but the men couldn’t bring themselves to kill the friendly birds, and ancient superstition forbade them from killing the albatross that still followed majestically above.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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