How to Use no-win in a Sentence

no-win

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• Or has that become a no-win move?
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
• Four hours later, there stood this teenager in a no-win situation.
  — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
• This is a no-win situation because one of us will end up unhappy.
  — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
• Most important is to not get caught up in a no-win situation around money.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 22 Feb. 2026
• How did the incumbents set themselves up for what feels like a no-win situation?
  — Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
• Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei finds himself in a no-win scenario.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 18 June 2025
• Johnson finds himself in a no-win situation of his own making.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
• These stories can also be used to set up an intense challenge or even a no-win situation.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Sep. 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
• Jews who are concerned about the rising tide of antisemitism are in a no-win situation.
  — Philip Klein, National Review, 23 Apr. 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
• And nearly half of workers feel guilty both for working on vacation and for not working, revealing a no-win burnout loop many can’t escape.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
• More than ever, colleges and universities are divided over how to respond in what are likely to be no-win contests.
  — David Wippman, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2026
• But at least Joe Biden got us out of a costly no-win war for which America, in my opinion, is now much better off.
  — Thomas L. Friedman, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 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
• Refuse to let anyone antagonize or bait you into an argument or no-win situation.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 29 July 2024
• That's putting inflationary pressure and leaving the Fed in a no-win situation.
  — NBC news, 31 Aug. 2025
• Distance yourself from no-win situations and head in a productive direction.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 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
• Employees are caught in a no-win situation, pressured to adopt AI tools yet reluctant to admit it.
  — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• This type of agreement is not unheard of, according to Billboard, mirroring the no-win-no-fee model employed by some legal firms.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 16 Dec. 2025
• This video exemplifies the profound challenges and no-win situations our deputies frequently face.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• The reality is that caregiving will frequently put you in no-win situations where no easy answer exists.
  — Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
• From this no-win scenario director Laura Casabé extracts all the pleasures, anxieties, and frenzy of teenage life.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2025
• This no-win situation is yet another symptom of the growing politicization of law enforcement and public safety.
  — Diane Goldstein, Mercury News, 17 Dec. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Challenging the integrity of this data puts future commissioners in a no-win situation.
  — Brent Dykes, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• In a sense, Bowman was in a no-win situation — tight to the salary ceiling and without a ton of future capital to work with, with a team that had plenty of needs and a clock ticking loudly.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• 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