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
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
