chicken-and-egg
adjective
chick·en-and-egg
ˈchi-kᵊn-ən(d)-ˈeg 
-ˈāg
: of, relating to, or being a cause-and-effect dilemma
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Professional success and fraternal affiliation have always had a chicken-and-egg relationship: Do Greek organizations produce leaders, or just attract them?
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Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
The collapse of the domestic syndication marketplace raises a chicken-and-egg quandary.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
Future long-term studies might answer a chicken-and-egg type of question: Which comes first, the trunkedness or the wrinkles?
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
But spaces are limited and often may rely on popularity as a signal for admittance — a chicken-and-egg problem.
—Charlie Kaplan, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
But progress in uniting the two has faced a chicken-and-egg problem: Robots need more world-savvy AI in order to get smarter, and AI needs smarter robots to understand the world.
—Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
But the appraisal gap’s cause-and-effect dynamics is a classic chicken-and-egg question.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
The dynamic reflects something of a chicken-and-egg situation for automakers: Their ability to push electric vehicles beyond early adopters hinges on second-wave buyers in a broader swath of states.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
This chicken-and-egg situation is characteristic of the overall frustrations of the Matter rollout to date.
—Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 9 Apr. 2024
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Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
The collapse of the domestic syndication marketplace raises a chicken-and-egg quandary.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
Future long-term studies might answer a chicken-and-egg type of question: Which comes first, the trunkedness or the wrinkles?
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
But spaces are limited and often may rely on popularity as a signal for admittance — a chicken-and-egg problem.
—Charlie Kaplan, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
But progress in uniting the two has faced a chicken-and-egg problem: Robots need more world-savvy AI in order to get smarter, and AI needs smarter robots to understand the world.
—Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
But the appraisal gap’s cause-and-effect dynamics is a classic chicken-and-egg question.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
The dynamic reflects something of a chicken-and-egg situation for automakers: Their ability to push electric vehicles beyond early adopters hinges on second-wave buyers in a broader swath of states.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024
This chicken-and-egg situation is characteristic of the overall frustrations of the Matter rollout to date.
—Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 9 Apr. 2024
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