How to Use chicken-and-egg in a Sentence
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There is a chicken-and-egg scenario here.
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Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Yeah, there’s a chicken-and-egg thing going on here.
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Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
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Remember, there's a chicken-and-egg thing in here.
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Lesley Stahl,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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However, the feature game is something of a chicken-and-egg situation.
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Amy Panos,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 July 2026
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The math isn’t mathing The childcare crisis is essentially a chicken-and-egg problem.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
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In summary, the chicken-and-egg problem of low renewable electricity and cheap hydrogen must be solved for green steel to go mainstream.
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Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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And thus begins the series of chicken-and-egg questions about the San Antonio Spurs’ shooting performance in the loss.
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John Hollinger,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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There’s a chicken-and-egg, no pun intended, conundrum between retailers and the food supply chain, leading to a lack of healthy market competition.
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Jack Buffington,
The Conversation,
6 Feb. 2026
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There’s a chicken-and-egg, no pun intended, conundrum between retailers and the food supply chain, leading to a lack of healthy market competition.
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Jack Buffington,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
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In other words, the key to answering this chicken-and-egg question for the stars within galaxies and the supermassive black holes also found within them is to sample those galaxies across cosmic time.
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Aug. 2025
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Domestically, American companies attempting to scale up their product face the chicken-and-egg challenge.
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Matthew Dawson,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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