How to Use self-fulfilling in a Sentence

self-fulfilling

adjective
  • But maybe this is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This approach was once thought to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Darsh Singh Mann, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • This could provide something of a self-fulfilling prophecy for the yield curve.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 24 July 2024
  • That same hesitancy could lead to a self-fulfilling doom loop.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • In the end, the race among Democrats became less a contest than a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • As things stand, your husband’s fear of losing you could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 17 June 2023
  • But the risk is, of course, when all of us decide to be cautious, that can become a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — ABC News, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Opinions on the ground matter and can even become self-fulfilling prophecies.
    — Greg Cohen, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In that way, the race seems to be shaping up as less a competition than a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026
  • Fear of making a mistake can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 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
  • For some on the project, being involved in Barbie is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
  • The cycle, in other words, produces a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2025
  • As often happens in bank runs, those concerns became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Erin Griffith, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
  • In the world of economics, such fears can quickly become self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2025
  • And those labels might also change her emotions and become self-fulfilling prophecies.
    — Georgi Gardiner, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 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
  • Stewart saw what was happening and knew a morale problem could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 20 May 2024
  • Only then does fusion become self-fulfilling.
    — Michael Ponting, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • In that sense, beliefs can become self-fulfilling, even when they are poorly grounded in evidence.
    — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • In a sense, Thomas’s warning that Nina is getting in her own way is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe fretting over fading attention spans is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Feb. 2026
  • By now, of course, many of his Church Choir devotees consider that song a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Doing an emergency cut now, though, might make recession fears a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Joel Mathis, theweek, 12 Aug. 2024
  • 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 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
  • This raises the risk of a recession becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The two campaigns have weaponized America against itself—a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Chris Jackson, Fortune, 4 Nov. 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

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