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1968 Las Vegas (New Mexico) Optic 26 Mar. 1/4 The meeting was the third held..in an attempt to resolve the road problem... The community's efforts had resulted in a bureaucratic, catch 22 runaround.

1974 Sumter (S. Carolina) Daily Item 22 Apr. 8 a/5 His Public Interest Group now finds itself in a Catch 22 situation. It cannot prove the device works without EPA funds, but EPA won't grant the funds unless they prove the device works.

1987 N.Y. Times 1 Mar. xxii. 7/1 A ‘Catch 22’ dilemma, where one is faced with a choice between the risk of automobile accidents and of environmental damage.

2001 D. Wolfe Tales from Underground (2002) i. i. 25 Before there were living cells with DNA instructions..how would such enzymes have been constructed? It's a mind-boggling catch-22 problem of interdependence.

2016 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 19 Aug. 16 For actors it's a bit of a catch 22 situation because you can not get work without an agent and you can not get an agent without work.