Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-fulfilling
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
prophecy
▪ In this way events may be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
▪ 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.
▪ 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.
▪ It turns confusion into curiosity and stops myths from becoming self-fulfilling prophecies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
▪ 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 may, however, result in a less interesting and self-fulfilling system of education from the individual's point of view.
▪ The Big Promise and the confident show of the self-employed are self-fulfilling prophesies.
▪ What happens when there are no sensory cues, when there is no self-fulfilling prophecy?
Wiktionary
self-fulfilling
a. Describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted.
Usage examples of "self-fulfilling".
Menzoberranzan was a place so wound up in its own intrigue that truth mattered less than suspicion, that suspicion often became a self-fulfilling prophecy, and thus, often created truth.
But we can still be the voice of the self-fulfilling prophecy, the midwife if not the mother of a new age.