chalice
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The Dundon family comprises the entire first two rows of names on the iconic chalice, even though Papa Dundon is the only one who holds a position within the organization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
"Factor in the costs and that you're going to need a more expensive squad and qualification for the Conference League is now a bit of a poisoned chalice."
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
“You need fire and you need a chalice. To me, that fire is my creativity. It’s my birthright to create. And that chalice is the community that holds me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
He once described the prospect of a humiliating cease-fire with Iraq as drinking from a poisoned chalice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
On the altar die priest was cleaning the chalice and the platters.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
It’s a constant conundrum of global athletic events, pursued as chalices by complicated hosts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
A glass case displays dozens of chalices and wine-and-water cruet sets.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2021
Ending the nation's more than two-decade wait for a major finals had become the most poisoned of chalices.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2020
Now, I remember some silly flapdoodle about vessels and chalices and secret societies, but not much else.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2019
The tulips along the border are redder than ever, opening, no longer wine cups but chalices; thrusting themselves up, to what end?
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing chalice
"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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Novel Study: Macbeth, Acts 1–2
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