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Recent Examples of no-win
Channel your emotions and energy into self-improvements and gains that benefit you instead of drama and emotional disputes that put you in a no-win situation.
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Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
Avoid discussions that can lead to a no-win situation.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
An emotional argument will turn into a no-win situation.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
Distance yourself from no-win situations and head in a productive direction.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
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Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
Avoid discussions that can lead to a no-win situation.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
An emotional argument will turn into a no-win situation.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
Distance yourself from no-win situations and head in a productive direction.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for no-win
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ByteDance has contended divestment is practically impossible, meaning that the law effectively amounts to a nationwide ban of the video-sharing platform.Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2024
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That's impossible to say for now as Smith moved to have the case dropped in the wake of Trump's 2024 win, citing long-standing Justice Department policy barring the prosecution of a sitting president.Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
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His performance, inhabiting the sad, addicted, stricken, sick and hopeless romantic Lee is already being lauded as Oscar season begins.Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
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The cyclical nature of symptoms can leave you feeling hopeless and out of control.Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024
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That aggressive pursuit seems especially pointless in the (still very cryptic) big picture scope that Tsuta displays — the film transporting into 35mm color film, widescreen landscape shots showing dilapidated buildings and other dead things while the rest of nature carries on.Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
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It’s being kept around after in a pointless fashion.Katie Campione, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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This is a version of the Otherworld or Carcosa, some lost, cursed, blighted place.Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Vita Sackville-West – who at the age of 18 are a bit lost.Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
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Photograph by Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / AP Something both Republicans and Democrats in Washington agree on is that big partisan majorities in the House of Representatives are unattainable at the moment.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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That unattainable homogeneity is part of Putin’s rhetoric, claiming that there’s no discernable Ukrainian culture.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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Restaurants are closing and car break-ins are so common that people complain that thieves sometimes steal worthless items like old rags.Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Aaron Ryder, a producer of Arrival, was quarantining at a hotel in Montreal, watching an army of amateur day traders drive up the value of a supposedly worthless stock.Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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“No-win.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/no-win. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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