adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a no-win situation (= one in which there will be a bad result whatever happens )
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It’s a no-win situation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
situation
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The team, certainly against the less-powerful nations, were almost in a no-win situation .
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I don't want to say a no-win situation , but close.
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Often bosses ignore workers or give them the silent treatment - a negative, no-win situation for all concerned.
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Whatever he said, he was in a no-win situation .
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The human and political fallout from the earlier mass departure left Clinton in a no-win situation .
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This puts women in a no-win situation .
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It was simply the clearest demonstration yet of the no-win situation Rudy Tomjanovich and his U.S. team find themselves in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For management, these are no-win controversies.
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I don't want to say a no-win situation, but close.
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In fact, the nationalists were prisoners of a historical situation that inevitably made modernity a no-win choice.
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Often bosses ignore workers or give them the silent treatment - a negative, no-win situation for all concerned.
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Recast and streamlined for the current season, it is languishing in a no-win time slot on Thursdays.
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The human and political fallout from the earlier mass departure left Clinton in a no-win situation.
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The team, certainly against the less-powerful nations, were almost in a no-win situation.
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Whatever he said, he was in a no-win situation.