double bind

The straightforward Fed logic of lowering borrowing costs when the economy is struggling and raising them to counter rapid inflation is put in a double bind by the hypothetical, and Powell admitted as much.

Harris, like other Black women, experiences the double bind of having to navigate racism and sexism.

This government determining standards that contradict what children learn at home places them in a double bind.

In Sondheim’s lyrics, the double bind of attachment is often a source of agitation; in Ebb’s it is often a pummeling.

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