How to Use double bind in a Sentence
double bind
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This double bind can be a cause for friction yet is avoidable.
—Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
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Mr Trump’s trade policies have put Harley-Davidson in a double bind.
—The Economist, 7 June 2018
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The masochistic double bind is a malign version of the narrator’s problem.
—Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
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But for Republican women, that double bind comes with a twist.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
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Cold chains present a double bind; both their absence and their presence have huge ecological costs.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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Those users who are uncomfortable with this universalism are caught in a double bind.
—Tung-Hui Hu, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2022
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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
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However well known, the double bind is stubbornly persistent—and in some cases getting worse.
—Maria Aspan, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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These views, deeply ingrained in American society even today, put mothers in a political double bind.
—Jill Filipovic, The New Republic, 29 May 2018
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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
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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
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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
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Women may have to navigate the double bind and likeability conundrum and its associated backlash.
—Palena Neale, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hindutva puts religious minorities in India in an impossible double bind.
—Supriya Gandhi, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2020
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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
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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
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