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"in a double bind" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase generally refers to a difficult situation in which one is faced with two equally unsatisfactory choices. For example, "The teacher was in a double bind; she had to choose between assigning extra work to her students or accepting a lower grade on their final projects."
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That puts Turkey in a double bind.
Mr Rutte is in a double bind.
Universities are in a double bind.
The government is in a double bind.
"We are in a double bind," he said.
All these manoeuvres put Nato in a double bind.
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Thus, in a double bind-system, they end up in a no-win situation.
nevertheless bear in mind the limits of employees' possibilities in a double bind-system.
Ngoasheng, for one, feels caught in a double-bind.
Black innovators are often caught in a double-bind: they have to deny their love of technology in order to sell the results of their technical mastery.
You find yourself in a double-bind: you're constantly told that the chances of conceiving are maximised if you can relax and eliminate stress, but it's hard to let go of something so all-consuming, so elemental, as infertility.
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