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double bind

noun

  1. Psychology. a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other.

double bind

noun

  1. a situation of conflict from which there is no escape; unresolvable dilemma

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Word History and Origins

Origin of double bind1

An Americanism dating back to 1955–60

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Example Sentences

That conflict aptly demonstrated the GOP's awkward "double bind," as Matthew Continetti put it in at the Weekly Standard.

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