How to Use no-win in a Sentence

no-win

adjective
  • How did the incumbents set themselves up for what feels like a no-win situation?
    — Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
  • 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
  • The focus on those brutal losses was on Darnold, but he was put in a no-win position by the Minnesota offensive line.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • These stories can also be used to set up an intense challenge or even a no-win situation.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Sep. 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
  • From this no-win scenario director Laura Casabé extracts all the pleasures, anxieties, and frenzy of teenage life.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • But then, a question like this is a no-win situation for an actor who’s already seen how rapidly one’s reputation can take a hit.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
  • But then, a question like this is a no-win situation for an actor who’s already seen how rapidly one’s reputation can take a hit.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Democrats head toward the Friday deadline trying to reckon with a problem few in the conference fully know how to wrap their arms around: a no-win situation, with every avenue available being equally thorny.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Distance yourself from no-win situations and head in a productive direction.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Refuse to let anyone antagonize or bait you into an argument or no-win situation.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 29 July 2024
  • 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.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
  • An emotional argument will turn into a no-win situation.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The danger is that by becoming more like its competitors, Southwest may find itself in a no-win situation: neither distinctive enough to command loyalty nor large enough to compete effectively with the major carriers on their own terms.
    — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • 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

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