How to Use self-perpetuating in a Sentence

self-perpetuating

adjective
  • The goal is self-perpetuating aid rather than endless fundraising drives.
    — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • These two risks are also self-perpetuating.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • However, the greater concern is not the initial price shock but the risk of these disruptions becoming self-perpetuating regime shifts.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Deflation often comes with a self-perpetuating mentality among consumers that is hard to break.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2025
  • At its highest level, football’s appeal is self-perpetuating.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • At its highest level, football’s appeal is self-perpetuating.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • No doubt, social media is both a window into how flawed people have always been and a self-perpetuating catalyst for further madness.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 14 Sep. 2025
  • As tension grows, conversations feel riskier, so they are avoided even more, creating a self-perpetuating cycle of conflict avoidance.
    — Anna Shields, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The book is about a kidnapping scheme where the victim’s parents must kidnap another child to secure their own child’s release, creating a self-perpetuating chain of abductions.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In the arms race for audience’s undivided attention, both single-player and competitive games have become their own self-perpetuating ecosystems.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Welcome to the leak doom loop—a self-perpetuating cycle of internal leaks, reactionary crackdowns and eroding trust that can quietly destabilize even the strongest organizations.
    — Troy Batterberry, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • When the cost of servicing past debt grows faster than the economy that supports it, debt accumulation becomes self-perpetuating, making a fiscal crisis increasingly likely.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • For Wallerstein, these were the necessary and sufficient conditions to render capitalism a self-perpetuating machine.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Alarm bells sounding in forests and oceans In the Amazon, self-perpetuating feedback loops threaten the stability of the Earth’s largest rain forest, an ecosystem that influences global climate.
    — Alexandra A Phillips, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • According to Swart, confrontations between demonstrators and federal agents have devolved into a self-perpetuating escalation cycle.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • As with the epidemic of gun violence, the self-perpetuating cycle of online radicalization continues unbroken, with harrowing consequences for all sides of the political spectrum.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The report emphasizes that sustained demand necessitates sustained infrastructure investment, urging policymakers to embrace energy realism and avoid political interference to prevent a looming, self-perpetuating supply crisis.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

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