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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.
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But now division heads are in a double bind .
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Exactly the same double bind is encountered in any theorization of racial difference.
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Hence the double bind attached to being appropriately feminine rears its ugly head again.
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This is not necessarily liberating: it may just be a double bind .
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Thus is the reporter put in a classic double bind .
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Used together these two strategies comprise that peculiar language game known as a double bind .