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choiceless

  • a word derived from choice.
    choice
    noun
    an act or instance of choosing; selection.

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“It was a choiceless choice,” Pranom said through an interpreter.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2025

Her observations could well apply to Jews forced to make choiceless choices during the Holocaust.

From Washington Post Jan. 21, 2022

“That’s what I call a choiceless choice,” says David B. Thronson, a professor at the Michigan State University College of Law, who helped found the Immigration Law Clinic.

From New York Times Dec. 14, 2017

I felt paralyzed and choiceless, simultaneously propelled and enfeebled, as if I were being walked in a Baby Bjorn.

From New York Times Nov. 14, 2014

Anyway, choiceless, she went, leaving husband, sister, Rose Dear and May behind, and if she worried, the blond baby helped soothe her, and kept her entertained for eighteen years, until he left home.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison