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Recent Examples of no-win
This is a no-win situation because one of us will end up unhappy.
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Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
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
The reality is that caregiving will frequently put you in no-win situations where no easy answer exists.
—Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 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
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Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
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
The reality is that caregiving will frequently put you in no-win situations where no easy answer exists.
—Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 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
See All Example Sentences for no-win
Recent Examples of Synonyms for no-win
Adjective
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The 2023 Lahaina fire made the issue impossible to ignore.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
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That’s something that the broader AI industry has so far struggled to do, partly because LLMs are typically trained on vast, messy datasets scraped from across the internet, where ownership, consent and individual contributions from millions of sources are nearly impossible to track.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Moreover, Munis said, with enough notice a heavy-hitting Democrat might have entered the contest, instead of the lowly bunch now running hopeless campaigns.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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And for the hopeless romantics among us, there’s confessions of love, yearning, and unlikely lovers.—
De Elizabeth,
Glamour,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Still, the moment felt pointless.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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The end result is a cultured information of markets that supports thoughtful techniques, reliable forecasting and knowledgeable positioning without pointless complexity.—
Ascend Agency,
Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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And so went the conversations of the day between mother and children, with each attempting to explain the uncommunicated emotions of the lost years.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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The lost hiker didn’t have cell service, but his phone’s light would have appeared on the SAR team’s thermal cameras.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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In the case of a sacrosanct, seemingly unattainable number like Kobe’s 81, chasing a stat doesn’t feel so different from chasing a ring.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
14 Mar. 2026
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But that goal will be difficult—verging on unattainable—and would likely require a lengthy military commitment.—
Jonathan Lemire,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
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The schemer makes out with bags of money, while the followers are left with nearly worthless assets.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
12 Mar. 2026
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The conventional newsgathering institutions have been worthless in getting to the bottom of anything, especially the billion-dollar why question.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
7 Mar. 2026
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“No-win.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/no-win. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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