How to Use double bind in a Sentence

double bind

noun

• This double bind can be a cause for friction yet is avoidable.
  — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• Mr Trump’s trade policies have put Harley-Davidson in a double bind.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• The masochistic double bind is a malign version of the narrator’s problem.
  — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
• But for Republican women, that double bind comes with a twist.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• Cold chains present a double bind; both their absence and their presence have huge ecological costs.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• Caught in the double bind of toxic masculinity and a racist revolving-door carceral system, where does the buck stop?
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• The double bind deepens when Dana learns that this survival depends on Rufus’s enslavement and rape of a free Black woman named Alice.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Those users who are uncomfortable with this universalism are caught in a double bind.
  — Tung-Hui Hu, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2022
• That Bassett was in the makeup chair when Matthews made the inappropriate comments highlights the double binds facing women.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020
• However well known, the double bind is stubbornly persistent—and in some cases getting worse.
  — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2022
• But the disparity in attitudes toward aging – also wrapped up in critiques of their appearance – can pose a double bind for women who aspire to the White House.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• Timely and important articulation of the double bind immigrants find themselves in, and why some — in this case the children — turn to extremism.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2018
• While the researchers are careful to note that their findings do not establish any causal relationships, even the observed correlations present a tragic double bind.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 22 Oct. 2017
• Two statements that represent a terrific double bind—a rope thrown by one black woman to constrict another, that surely ends up constricting them both.
  — Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
• While broadcast and voice technologies have significantly progressed during the last century, even the most up-to-date media formats still have yet to solve many of the double binds in which those with higher voices may find themselves.
  — Tina Tallon, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
• The double bind for female candidates is that women who contend for power are less likely than men to be seen as likeable, but likeability has outsized importance for them.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 31 May 2017
• Daytrien Wilken, the spokeswoman for the group, whose uncle is among the workers, says sanitation workers are in a double bind: their work is especially valuable in preventing the spread of coronavirus, yet they are made more vulnerable.
  — Sidney Fussell, Wired, 5 June 2020
• These views, deeply ingrained in American society even today, put mothers in a political double bind.
  — Jill Filipovic, The New Republic, 29 May 2018
• Febos added that the likeability trap places girls in a double bind where they are expected to manage their reputation and maintain purity, yet please everyone.
  — Kyv Editorial Staff, NBC News, 25 May 2021
• Bradley proves herself sensitive to the double bind of addiction and incarceration throughout her documentary, which follows Sibil Fox Richardson’s efforts to free her husband from prison.
  — Jonathan W. Gray, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
• Gould said there was a double bind: the organization actually could not negotiate earnings and benefits, since those are already set by the statute creating the organization.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Women may have to navigate the double bind and likeability conundrum and its associated backlash.
  — Palena Neale, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• But Gilman’s conviction about his opinions — his reverence for originality, his belief that singing and acting are below intellectual pursuits — put Priscilla in a double bind.
  — Eve Fairbanks, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
• From this perspective, climate care amounts to caring for the environment by making the most of resources to decrease waste and address the double bind of industrialized manufacturing and industrial-strength pollution.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• This is also, Tannen says, a byproduct of the double bind; because directness is often read as aggression, women learn to handle confrontation in indirect, self-consciously accommodating ways as well.
  — Ashley Fetters, The Cut, 1 May 2018
• Compounded by the expectation that Black women are expected to ceaselessly perform labor for society’s comfort or entertainment, famous athletes like Osaka and the Williams sisters are in a double bind due to their notoriety and talent.
  — SELF, 8 May 2022
• Hindutva puts religious minorities in India in an impossible double bind.
  — Supriya Gandhi, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2020
• In many states, this precludes transfer of Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and other data—a double bind that would make any federal data-matching and verification task, an endeavor traditionally reserved to state coordination, futile.
  — Julia Powles, Slate Magazine, 12 July 2017
• This combination — an erratic and impeachment-threatened Republican president, and his increasingly radical Democratic opponents — puts U.S. business in a double bind.
  — Karl Smith, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024