chalice
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To end the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the regime’s first supreme leader, made the difficult call to end the fighting, a decision he likened to drinking from a poisoned chalice.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 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
He said some people had warned him that the job would be a "poisoned chalice".
From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025
“It’s blood now,” Abel whispered when the priest raised the chalice with the wine, and his thin voice mixed mysteriously into the ringing altar bell.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
Vocabulary lists containing chalice
"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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The Poet X
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Novel Study: Macbeth, Acts 1–2
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