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Recent Examples of millstone
Could Gladys be free of this ducal millstone around her neck?
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Alice Burton, Vulture, 7 July 2025
But this also turned out to be a millstone around the agency’s neck.
—ArsTechnica, 29 June 2025
Its historic millstone quarries once produced grinding stones exported across Northern Europe.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Golden aims to avoid expectations from becoming a millstone for a squad with all the elements to make a legitimate run at the school’s third national title.
—Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
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The preseason Poeltl extension presently looks like a long-term albatross.—
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The Browns didn’t appear to be set with Sanders or Gabriel as QB1 going into 2026, especially with Deshaun Watson and his albatross of a contract lingering.—
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Trump has prioritized breaking China’s stranglehold on the global supply of rare earths ever since the world’s number two economy sharply restricted who could buy them after the United States imposed widespread tariffs last spring.—
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Xi’s superpower rival had established a seemingly unassailable lead in the most consequential technology of the past half-century—as well as a stranglehold on the bedrock hardware.—
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“Millstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millstone. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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