How to Use lose-lose in a Sentence

lose-lose

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• The point here is this: Redstone is trapped in a lose-lose situation.
  — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2025
• In short, this satellite plan is a lose-lose proposition.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• But as the war unfolds, Israel is hurtling toward a lose-lose outcome.
  — Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2023
• But this conclusion may seem like a lose-lose for those looking to stay active.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 27 June 2023
• Getting into that discussion, in your own words, can be a lose-lose.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
• Still, such a war would create a lose-lose scenario for everyone.
  — Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
• The antitrust ruling against Google may not be the lose-lose scenario for the search giant and its key partner Apple that some are predicting.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
• Pledging to bring gas prices down by any means necessary is a lose-lose prospect for both the planet and the Biden administration.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
• For him, running for president was a lose-lose proposition.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
• The question puts coaches in a lose-lose situation, which is why Iowa’s Lisa Bluder declined to answer it at her news conference.
  — David Whitley, The Tennessean, 9 Apr. 2024
• For Richard Linklater, talking about awards and accolades is a lose-lose situation.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
• Looking back now, Winter says speaking out was always going to be a lose-lose situation.
  — Gillian Telling, People.com, 8 May 2025
• This puts women in a lose-lose position in sexist situations.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• He’s argued that Democrats faced a lose-lose scenario between shutting down the government or being seen as enabling the Trump administration.
  — Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Mar. 2025
• This is a lose-lose: The care organization is wasting their most valuable asset — a provider’s time — while patients are waiting weeks for a visit as precious appointments go to waste.
  — Oliver Kharraz, STAT, 2 May 2023
• This encroachment is a lose-lose situation: The grazing is not nutritious for livestock, and the delicate Afro-Alpine soil and plants can take decades to regenerate.
  — Kang-Chun Cheng, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
• If not addressed properly, these issues compound over time, resulting in a lose-lose situation for retailers and buyers alike.
  — Roland Gossage, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• In a classic lose-lose scenario, the study also identified an evaluation bias that negatively impacts highly productive women who get their work done in less time.
  — Michelle Travis, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
• From my own experience working inside and outside of large corporates, setting goals is often a lose-lose situation.
  — Rob Kaplan, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• But a quarter-century is bound to bring changes—including physical ones, understandably—and Davis admits she’s been fighting a lose-lose battle over her use of facial fillers and other aesthetic treatments.
  — Kayla Blanton, SELF, 12 June 2023
• During a war, NATO would face a lose-lose choice: lose a fight with conventional weapons or initiate a mutually catastrophic nuclear exchange.
  — Keir A. Lieber, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• So far the European approach has been to selectively target politically sensitive goods rather than impose sweeping retaliation, since like most economists, officials view tariff wars as a lose-lose game.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025
• So, even though acquiring Juniper would significantly improve HPE’s profitability mix to almost 50% attributed to the higher multiple networking business, many market participants may be looking at this as a lose-lose.
  — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2025
• That was a lose-lose AI diplomacy strategy.
  — Tanvi Ratna, FOXNews.com, 23 Feb. 2026