albatross
信天翁
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Definitions
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- : any of several large, web-footed sea birds of the family Diomedeidae that have the ability to remain aloft for long periods.Compare wandering albatross.
- : a seemingly inescapable moral or emotional burden, as of guilt or responsibility.
- : something burdensome that impedes action or progress.
- : Textiles. a lightweight worsted fabric with a crepe or pebble finish.a plain-weave cotton fabric with a soft nap surface.
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Most of the stores being closed are in weak malls from which shoppers have long since defected and which have become an albatross for Macy’s.
Well, birds in the order Procellariiformes—albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters—are commonly known as tubenoses because of that curious little characteristic.
After all, these frequent discounts have proved an albatross for old school retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond and Gap, training people to wait for a deal.
The study also criticized certain analytical techniques and claimed that albatrosses don’t do Lévy walks after all, and that it was unclear whether many species did.
When the opportunity arose to analyze flight data from albatrosses — birds that fly freely over the open ocean in search of food — he gratefully took it.
Note to Sting: An “albatross” in this context is more like “tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt.”
She confesses that shame “hung around my neck like a scarlet-A albatross.”
The deal reached to end the shutdown did nothing to address the albatross of unpredictability.
It was tough when I was younger; it was like an albatross on my back but I just found a way to navigate it.
But the Ryan budget could become an albatross in the negotiations over the fiscal cliff.
He proposed that I might pilot the two-seater while he followed and pretended to give chase in an Albatross scout.