self-limiting
Americanadjective
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limiting oneself or itself.
a self-limiting authority.
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(of a disease) self-limited.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of self-limiting
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Even if you lived as long as Methuselah, it’s impossible to keep growing a pile of capital using a very sound strategy because success is self-limiting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: self-limiting.
From Slate ● May 28, 2024
That was a decade before the Gates Foundation funded Oxitec’s program on self-limiting cattle ticks.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
U.S. policy has been self-limiting, if not self-defeating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2023
What the athletes also gave him was an ability to reach into every slice of the school’s population, into every self-defined and self-limiting clique.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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