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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
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Many of Florida’s buildings face aging materials, punishing weather, and deferred maintenance that quietly compound until conditions become impossible to ignore and threaten residents’ safety.—
Keegan A. Berry,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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The trustworthiness of nearly every website, inbox, and bank account rests on the assumption that these two problems are impossible to solve.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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There were definitely points on my journey where things seemed dark and sort of hopeless.—
Zulekha Nathoo,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2026
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This one’s for the horny, hopeless goth inside all of us.—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Other marketing jobs on RentAHuman seem equally pointless, like a $25 street promo for a cryptography startup, or a $5 job reviewing AI generated cartoons.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
25 Mar. 2026
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But to go so far as to dismiss the past… Making a snide comment about the Cannes audience, which has always welcomed him warmly, was pointless and unfair.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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Well, any information that’s ever been transmitted on the Internet is a lost cause—because even if it was encrypted, an opponent could have downloaded and saved it for a future where quantum computers can decrypt any of the old methods.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
31 Mar. 2026
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Milford e-bike warning Milford police issued the warning to the public after a 15-year-old lost control of an e-bike and was hit by a car on Wednesday.—
Logan Hall,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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In addition to offering previously unattainable data rates, Wi-Fi 7 employs new technologies to reduce latency, increase network capacity, and boost efficiency.—
Iyaz Akhtar,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2026
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And nearly three-in-five Americans today fear the encroaching AI job apocalypse could make housing even more unattainable.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
25 Mar. 2026
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The handwash sink next to the three-compartment sink proved worthless without soap, paper towels or a mechanical blower.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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In an economy where wages are anchored to what compute would cost to replicate human work, human labor becomes economically marginal—not worthless, but negligibly small relative to the overall pie.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
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“No-win.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/no-win. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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