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
That's the double bind of these supposed "exceptions."
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2024
In Sondheim’s lyrics, the double bind of attachment is often a source of agitation; in Ebb’s it is often a pummeling.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023
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.
