How to Use self-fulfilling in a Sentence
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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 -
Doing an emergency cut now, though, might make recession fears a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Joel Mathis, theweek, 12 Aug. 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
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