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Recent Examples of albatross
Patrick Reed made an albatross on No. 4 to get to 2-under and become one of the stories of the day.
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Brody Miller, New York Times, 13 June 2025
The albatross on the fourth seeming ages ago by that point.
—Julia Andersen, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
The incredible two on the par 5 was just the fourth albatross at the U.S. Open in recorded history and the first since 2012 when Nick Watney made one, according to Justin Ray.
—Troy Finnegan, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
Unlike with Whiteside and his $98 million albatross of a contract, Ware remains on the NBA’s rookie scale, the type of plus value that is not necessarily the case with 36-year-old Durant and his impending two-year, $122 million extension.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 June 2025
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Brody Miller, New York Times, 13 June 2025
The albatross on the fourth seeming ages ago by that point.
—Julia Andersen, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
The incredible two on the par 5 was just the fourth albatross at the U.S. Open in recorded history and the first since 2012 when Nick Watney made one, according to Justin Ray.
—Troy Finnegan, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
Unlike with Whiteside and his $98 million albatross of a contract, Ware remains on the NBA’s rookie scale, the type of plus value that is not necessarily the case with 36-year-old Durant and his impending two-year, $122 million extension.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for albatross
Noun
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But this also turned out to be a millstone around the agency’s neck.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2025
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Its historic millstone quarries once produced grinding stones exported across Northern Europe.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
Noun
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Yes, there will be a transition away from CPUs to GPUs, and the NVIDIA stranglehold will take another 12 to 15 months to break, but systems from cloud to laptops will be vastly stimulated by this change.—
Forrester,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Following a parade of corruption scandals, pervasive electoral fraud and voter suppression, violence, and economic crises, however, PRI’s stranglehold over Mexican governance had ebbed, and a pro-democracy political faction, led by the National Action Party (PAN), gained strength.—
Rebecca Grant
June 24,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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“Albatross.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/albatross. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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