How to Use chicken-and-egg in a Sentence

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• There is a chicken-and-egg scenario here.
  — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
• Yeah, there’s a chicken-and-egg thing going on here.
  — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
• Remember, there's a chicken-and-egg thing in here.
  — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• However, the feature game is something of a chicken-and-egg situation.
  — Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 July 2026
• That leaves recyclers confronting something of a circular chicken-and-egg problem.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026
• The math isn’t mathing The childcare crisis is essentially a chicken-and-egg problem.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 3 May 2026
• In summary, the chicken-and-egg problem of low renewable electricity and cheap hydrogen must be solved for green steel to go mainstream.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
• But letting that chicken-and-egg problem fester is going to doom a lot of promising technology innovation.
  — Rob Day, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
• And thus begins the series of chicken-and-egg questions about the San Antonio Spurs’ shooting performance in the loss.
  — John Hollinger, New York Times, 5 June 2026
• There’s a chicken-and-egg, no pun intended, conundrum between retailers and the food supply chain, leading to a lack of healthy market competition.
  — Jack Buffington, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
• Majeranowski described the challenge as a classic chicken-and-egg conundrum.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
• In other words, the key to answering this chicken-and-egg question for the stars within galaxies and the supermassive black holes also found within them is to sample those galaxies across cosmic time.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Aug. 2025
• Domestically, American companies attempting to scale up their product face the chicken-and-egg challenge.
  — Matthew Dawson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• Solutions to the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) problem have to date relied on new networking protocols built from scratch—only to discover chicken-and-egg problems, thorny standards wars, and real signal congestion challenges at scale.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026