double bind

Example Sentences

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This creates a vicious double bind for average employees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

Even more so than writers, actors face a double bind when it comes to labor disputes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023

"So there's that double bind - a lack of people now and the potential lack of finances to pay for them in the future."

From BBC • May 19, 2023

It’s the double bind of representation: Blindness should be incidental, just one of many qualities that make up a character, but at the same time, underemphasizing blindness trivializes the stigma and marginalization it carries.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

To me, it felt like a sanity-warping double bind.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama