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double binds

double binds is the plural of double bind.

Meaning of double bind

Noun

double bind (plural double binds)

  1. A dilemma in which someone receives contradictory instructions and cannot act on either.
    • She is deciding, right then and there, if she wants to be seen naked on the internet, forever, an object of desire as well as derision. […] In a sense, as Angel notes, the scene dramatizes “the double bind in which women exist: that saying no may be difficult, but so too is saying yes.”2021 September 3, Helen Lewis, “The Problem With Being Cool About Sex”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN

Questions about double binds

What is double binds the plural of?
Double binds is the plural of double bind.

Words near double binds in the dictionary

  1. double besom pockets
  2. double biceps
  3. double bill
  4. double bills
  5. double bind
  6. double binds
  7. double biscuit
  8. double biscuits
  9. double black diamond
  10. double black diamonds
  11. double bluff

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