How to Use no-win in a Sentence

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• To simply measure his young team by victories would be a no-win situation, or at best a rare-win one.
  — Pat Graham, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
• Johnson finds himself in a no-win situation of his own making.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
• The disclosure of the documents seemed to leave Mr. DeSantis in something of a no-win situation.
  — Nicholas Nehamas, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Two one-loss teams (Alabama and Texas) snuck in ahead of Florida State in what was a no-win situation for the selection committee.
  — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023
• Don’t engage in a no-win argument or take on responsibilities that don’t belong to you.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
• After a yearlong campaign to tame prices, the central bank now faces a no-win situation: Annual inflation is at 6%, triple what the Fed considers to be healthy.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
• There’s an infectious quality to these young explorers’ optimism in the face of the seemingly no-win situation into which most of them were born.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• This video exemplifies the profound challenges and no-win situations our deputies frequently face.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• Some legal scholars have already pointed out that the debt ceiling’s existence amounts to a constitutional no-win scenario for a president.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
• For many politicians, the pandemic was an unending series of no-win decisions that endangered or enraged various constituencies.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• However, the fiscal realities, downward enrollment trends, the pandemic, the need for more resources and the mounting operational and facility challenges presented a no-win situation.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024