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
A woman in a double bind, as the concept was defined by its originator, Gregory Bateson, is subject to mutually exclusive requirements: Anything she does to fulfill one violates the other.
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 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.
