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• n  (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
  she was an albatross around his neck
• n  large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight

• The albatross reswallows and, with the brush stuck inside, wanders away.
• In fact, she said "Yes, please" until the project became a symbol and political albatross.
• A great white albatross soared round and round a South Atlantic ship.

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News & Articles

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• Miyagishima seeks help from LA, Albuquerque mayors to pay campaign debt
  LAS CRUCES — It is an albatross, of sorts, that Mayor Ken Miyagishima would like to get off of his neck.
  June 17, 2013 - Las Cruces Sun-News

Quotes

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• Norman Finkelstein in Washington Post
  Tenure, Finkelstein said, was another matter entirely: "I recognize if they had me on campus as a tenured faculty I would be an albatross for them for 20 years," he said.
• Paul Lawrie in Reuters
  The wind was a little off the left and I just hit a nice three-quarter four-iron,a smiling Lawrie told reporters. "I saw it go in which was kind of nice. It was lovely, my first one (albatross). It was just the perfect distance really and...
• Sankar Chatterjee in KOSA
  These animals take the best parts of bats and birds,Chatterjee said. "They had the maneuverability of a bat, but could glide like an albatross. Nothing alive today compares to the performance and agility of these animals. They lived for...