From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishself-fulfillingˌself-fulˈfilling adjective PREDICTif a statement or belief about what will happen in the future is self-fulfilling, it becomes true because you expect it to be true and so behave in a way that will make it happen It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: expect things to go wrong, and they probably will.
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self-fulfilling• Above all the drift to a self-seeking, self-satisfying, self-fulfilling approach to relationships is where the rot is really setting in.• Academic Standards: A self-fulfilling effect of cultural stereotypes is diminished expectations.• In that sense, they are self-fulfilling prophecies.• Increased speed of communication means that people can act much more quickly and can make trends into self-fulfilling prophecies.• In this way events may be a self-fulfilling prophecy.• What happens when there are no sensory cues, when there is no self-fulfilling prophecy?• The Big Promise and the confident show of the self-employed are self-fulfilling prophesies.• It may, however, result in a less interesting and self-fulfilling system of education from the individual's point of view.self-fulfilling prophecy• In that sense, they are self-fulfilling prophecies.• In this way events may be a self-fulfilling prophecy.• Increased speed of communication means that people can act much more quickly and can make trends into self-fulfilling prophecies.• It turns confusion into curiosity and stops myths from becoming self-fulfilling prophecies.• What happens when there are no sensory cues, when there is no self-fulfilling prophecy?• There was a ghastly self-fulfilling prophecy about such sessions.• That created a self-fulfilling prophecy as, for the day at least, the market dropped sharply.• As corporate players recognize other players adopting this assumption, an element of self-fulfilling prophecy takes charge. 