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
The group dynamic is what interests Young most because what lies beneath is an inherent "double bind".
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025
Even more so than writers, actors face a double bind when it comes to labor disputes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
