How to Use self-fulfilling in a Sentence

self-fulfilling

adjective
  • This could provide something of a self-fulfilling prophecy for the yield curve.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 24 July 2024
  • This approach was once thought to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Darsh Singh Mann, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • No, because that is self-fulfilling and becomes a habit.
    Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The movie asks: Is Paul the messiah or merely a self-fulfilling prophecy?
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
  • For some on the project, being involved in Barbie is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
  • The researchers found that having this belief became self-fulfilling in the form of the Pygmalion Effect.
    Pavel Krapivin, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • By now, of course, many of his Church Choir devotees consider that song a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
  • And a lack of connections is quite often self-fulfilling.
    Howard Murphy, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That’s the self-fulfilling prophecy: Say for months that these are the movies that will compete, and a prediction becomes a guarantee.
    A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
  • With people willing to buy now before there’s none later, prices will go up, in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 13 July 2024
  • As things stand, your husband’s fear of losing you could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 17 June 2023
  • Opinions on the ground matter and can even become self-fulfilling prophecies.
    Greg Cohen, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But the confidence Hyde had in Webb to pitch in those high-pressure moments is a self-fulfilling prophecy, giving Webb the belief to succeed in them.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 5 May 2024
  • But sometimes a story takes on a momentum of its own beyond that, a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, and that’s what happened here.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2024
  • That proves a self-fulfilling prophecy, as Fabio and Co. have one day only during which to complete their masterpieces.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 July 2023
  • The danger for Ukraine is that Western pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In many ways, our current way of relating to one another feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
  • Making matters worse, like a nightmarish self-fulfilling prophecy, the very words used by clinicians might well have caused some of this harm.
    TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Stewart saw what was happening and knew a morale problem could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 20 May 2024
  • Assuming the worst can become a self-fulfilling prophecy!
    USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
  • And those labels might also change her emotions and become self-fulfilling prophecies.
    Georgi Gardiner, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The coverage feeds a narrative of a campaign in trouble, which becomes self-fulfilling.
    Trip Gabriel, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • As often happens in bank runs, those concerns became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Erin Griffith, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
  • This has paved the way for many corny, pandering projects that have failed, thus sustaining the self-fulfilling prophecy that maybe Latinos simply don’t like to buy books, or watch TV, or whatever.
    Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • By arming ourselves to the teeth to protect against gun violence, our country creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
  • And sometimes, that can almost become self-fulfilling, but that psychology certainly can take a toll and almost act as much as the idea of a mythical course could act.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
  • This suggests that cries of fake polling can be self-fulfilling, insofar as those who distrust pollsters are less likely to participate in polls.
    Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Admitting the former Warsaw Pact countries into the alliance might strengthen the hand of the hard-liners inside Russia, and become, in effect, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Dystopia stories can also become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • But calling for more studies can be merely an excuse to delay, which increases costs, which then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for critics.
    Ron Gonzales, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024

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