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The phrase "put someone in a bind" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a situation where someone is left in a difficult situation, with no good options. For example, "John's boss put him in a bind when he asked him to work late on a family night."
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"Regardless of our background, our sexual orientation, how can you wait that long and put someone in a bind when they're going through a loss?" said Julion's widower, Kendall Capers.
"Regardless of our background, our sexual orientation, how can you wait that long and put someone in a bind when they're going through a loss?" said Julion's widow, Kendall Capers. .
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Put someone in charge of the vacation.
"If you're a young student, and have been trying to get a career off the ground, the bind that puts someone in is significant, because there's retaliation".
It may bind a spouse to her domestic abuser, draw an unscrupulous adult toward sexual involvement with a child, put someone under the insidious spell of a cult leader, and even inspire jealousy-fueled homicide.
We put ourselves in a bind.
The injunction put King in a bind.
That put San Francisco in a bind.
That could put us in a bind".
Last year's pledge put Citigroup in a bind.
"It would have put them in a bind," he said.
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