self-reinforcing
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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“It’s self-reinforcing: you ventilate at night, then shield from the sun by day, and it works well,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Higher levels of cortisol also worsens sleep further, locking workers into a self-reinforcing cycle.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The team in a report released this week cautioned that these gaps need to be addressed to “avoid creating a self-reinforcing cycle of biases, underrepresentation and weaker productivity gains.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026
But it can also become a self-reinforcing cycle: Hedging involves selling the dollar, weighing on the price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
“With order books thinned out, forced liquidations and panic selling had an outsize impact on price, fueling a self-reinforcing cascade of liquidations and accelerating the flash crash,” Forster noted.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2025
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