How to Use self-reinforcing in a Sentence

self-reinforcing

adjective
  • This creates what Grvt hopes will be a self-reinforcing cycle.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • One can reason through the sort of self-reinforcing feedback loop this establishes.
    — Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026
  • In this way, inflation can become self-reinforcing.
    — Raghuram Rajan, Time, 23 Jan. 2026
  • When those expectations break, the selling can become self-reinforcing.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • One key is making enforcement self-reinforcing to the extent possible.
    — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • Scientists warn that massive, self-reinforcing changes could be set off, having devastating impacts around the world.
    — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Zandi regards this spending as one of the last buffers preventing the slowdown from becoming self-reinforcing.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The trend is self-reinforcing, with founders decamping to California to find and work alongside other talent.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
  • Once the team saw that clarity improved with repetition, the system became self-reinforcing.
    — Sanel Mezbur, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The everything app becomes self-reinforcing.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But if businesses start to increase layoffs, then that'll set off a kind of self-reinforcing vicious cycle—layoffs, less spending, less spending, more layoffs.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But if businesses start to increase layoffs, then that'll set off a kind of self-reinforcing vicious cycle—layoffs, less spending, less spending, more layoffs.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The lesson for investors is that concentration can be self-reinforcing during bull markets, until sentiment changes.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 12 May 2026
  • At the same time, the shift of income away from workers and toward investors and corporations is becoming self-reinforcing, Hanks said.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Ramp is executing a similar playbook and scaling rapidly with an ever-growing (and self-reinforcing) product suite.
    — Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • What begins as a policy response to fiscal strain can quickly become a self-reinforcing dynamic that leads to hyperinflation.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Passive has further enabled the birth of Big Tech, mega-cap market hegemons that reap outsized riches from self-reinforcing lofty valuations.
    — Mike Terwilliger, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Such a scenario would likely cause unemployment to spike and business closures to multiply, creating a self-reinforcing depression.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Understanding how to win awards becomes crucial in this self-reinforcing cycle, where excellence and awards systems transform good hotels into great ones and great ones into industry legends.
    — Ascend Agency, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Unless, that is, generational identity becomes self-reinforcing.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Left alone, this combination can become self-reinforcing, with more capital funding more labor displacement, which in turn generates more returns to capital, which funds more automation.
    — Ravi Kumar S, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Large players like Apple, Walmart and Amazon have taken the lead in pushing vendors to disclose their own carbon footprints, which has created self-reinforcing ecosystems that aren’t about to unwind.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Producer organizations are cost-effective, demand-driven, and self-reinforcing.
    — Shobha Shetty, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Martel turns that eerie impassivity into an asset by treating the drone’s perspective as a kind of God’s-eye view of a conflict in which one side is trying to win by way of the inexorable, self-reinforcing power of bureaucracy and paperwork.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • Yet, when assessed through a stricter lens—requiring both multi-sided interactions and the presence of self-reinforcing network effects that enable growth at minimal marginal cost—only 140 stood up to scrutiny.
    — Ted Ladd, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • If managed carefully, this could accelerate development cycles and give OpenAI a self-reinforcing advantage in model training.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Beijing’s opacity, fragmented policymaking, and continual fusion of state, commercial, and strategic motives have thus created a self-reinforcing cycle.
    — Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Together, the Holocaust and Israel provided a self-reinforcing narrative of Jewish history, Jewish identity, and Jewish destiny.
    — Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The securitization cycle has placed Iran, the region, and NATO countries, particularly the United States, in a complex and self-reinforcing predicament.
    — Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2025

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