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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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The fish experiment did convince him, and other researchers, that a human brain microbiome is not impossible.Yasemin Saplakoglu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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This naïve notion, backed by some supporters of the incoming administration, would reduce U.S. involvement in the war to a minimum, forcing Europe to provide all remaining support, a near impossible feat.Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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By that point, most American passengers had reached a point of hopeless exhaustion.Opheli Garcia Lawlor, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
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Eugene is able to carry on after his romance with Lee, while Lee is confined to a life of falling into the same miserable cycles of loneliness and addiction, a feeling manifested by the snake shedding a hopeless tear.Barry Levitt, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
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Once the ground freezes, water will not penetrate to the root zone, so irrigation is pointless.Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2024
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Punishing them after the fact (e.g., for past accidents) is pointless and confusing.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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The character is supposed to return to the present, but decides to find his lost love Peggy Carter, and remain with her in the past.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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But even if Sunday’s performance proves to be a one-off or a consolation prize amid a lost season, the momentum created by this game should not be ignored.Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Combining an inventory of used and new books means no title is unreachable due to being out of print, and books are made more unattainable with a breadth of price points.American Booksellers Association, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024
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So, but these roles never struck me as unattainable for women.Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
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Photograph: Getty EVs are practically worthless secondhand, because the huge batteries will need expensive replacement after a few years.James Morris, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2024
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Accusations started flying, with many crypto observers alleging that $HAWK was a pump-and-dump scheme, or a rug pull — when developers build hype for a crypto project to raise money only to liquidate their position and walk away, with others left holding worthless tokens.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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“No-win.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/no-win. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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