How to Use no-win in a Sentence

no-win

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • For many politicians, the pandemic was an unending series of no-win decisions that endangered or enraged various constituencies.
    — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023

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