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Recent Examples of millstone
Indian atta is stone-ground, meaning the wheat kernels are crushed between millstones into a fine powder.
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Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 13 Mar. 2025
Now comes a cataclysm in the country’s foremost blue state that is traceable, in part, to irrational progressive priorities and may prove a millstone around the neck of one of the foremost talents on the Democratic bench, California governor Gavin Newsom.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 13 Mar. 2025
Now comes a cataclysm in the country’s foremost blue state that is traceable, in part, to irrational progressive priorities and may prove a millstone around the neck of one of the foremost talents on the Democratic bench, California governor Gavin Newsom.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for millstone
Noun
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Now comes an arguably harder chapter: Making sure the bill and its Medicaid cuts don’t become a political albatross for Republicans.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
1 July 2025
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This will be a political albatross for the Republicans.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 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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“Millstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millstone. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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