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
  • In a way, the outrage over penalties called in the Chiefs’ 23-14 win over the Houston Texans on Saturday was a case of self-fulfilling prophecy among fans.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • This fear can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where the very behaviors meant to protect oneself end up pushing the partner away.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Fear of making a mistake can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 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
  • The two campaigns have weaponized America against itself—a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Chris Jackson, Fortune, 4 Nov. 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
  • And many farms are holding on to their crops in anticipation of prices going higher still — a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • 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

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