How to Use self-fulfilling in a Sentence

self-fulfilling

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This idea that your attachment style is fixed and immutable, says Sequeira, can become a self-fulfilling prophecy which dooms relationships to stasis and failure.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 17 Oct. 2023
• Remain focused Try not to turn your layoff anxiety into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Lately, that strategy has been almost a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2023
• Positive stories, on the other hand, can also become self-fulfilling.
  — Kyle Paoletta, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• This is how cognitive behavioral therapy works: you’re guided to change your perspective to, more or less, avoid self-fulfilling prophecies.
  — Iman Milner, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2023
• The three siblings’ story reminds us that artistic potential is usually a self-fulfilling prophecy, expected from those who already look the part.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• But skittishness can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 5 May 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024