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Recent Examples of millstone
Archaeologists discovered numerous traces of the medieval hamlet, including cooking pots, storage vases, millstones used to grind grain, and carbonized remnants of cereal grains and legumes.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Harris was weighed down by the same millstones that had hung around Biden’s neck up until his withdrawal from the race, notably voter concerns over immigration, inflation and the economy.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
Anyway, he’s been speaking to Jack Lang about the millstone around his neck that was the £72million fee Arsenal paid for him in 2019.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
The border has long seemed a political millstone for Democrats, a place where the party splinters on policy and the results are out of step with broad public opinion.
—Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2024
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Harris was weighed down by the same millstones that had hung around Biden’s neck up until his withdrawal from the race, notably voter concerns over immigration, inflation and the economy.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
Anyway, he’s been speaking to Jack Lang about the millstone around his neck that was the £72million fee Arsenal paid for him in 2019.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
The border has long seemed a political millstone for Democrats, a place where the party splinters on policy and the results are out of step with broad public opinion.
—Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for millstone
Noun
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In all, this contract is anything but an albatross around the neck of the 49ers.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
22 May 2025
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Millions were spent on the cleanup of the soil, only for the debt to act as an albatross around the properties’ neck, tied to the metropolitan district on the land.—
The Denver Post Editorial Board,
Denver Post,
28 Apr. 2025
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Last week, the government called executives from several major AI companies, like OpenAI and Perplexity, in an attempt to argue that Google's stranglehold on search is preventing some of those companies from truly growing.—
Jaclyn Diaz,
NPR,
29 Apr. 2025
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Google's antitrust remedy trial started this week, and the Department of Justice has produced several witnesses to testify about how Google's stranglehold on search has slowed their innovation.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Millstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millstone. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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