lose-lose
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"It's a lose-lose situation for me because if I win, I've done what people expect, and if I lose, it's just like, I wasn't as good as what I thought," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
This demonstrates the value of America’s lead, but it isn’t clear government has a better solution to the safety risks even as it threatens to turn the labs’ billion-dollar superintelligence bets into lose-lose propositions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In the article, entitled “The Arithmetic of Active Management,” Sharpe showed that, while beating the market is a win-lose, zero-sum game before transaction costs, it is a lose-lose, negative-sum game after those costs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
"With the two countries fighting this tariff war, it's a lose-lose situation for everyone, it's not a win-win scenario," Guo told AFP.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
It was a lose-lose situation any way you looked at it.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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