self-reinforcing
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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“As the market rallies, the value of those calls increases, and dealers must buy additional futures to hedge. This creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop that provides sustained bids to the market,” says SpotGamma.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 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
Their capital consists not of factories, buildings and machines, but algorithms, operating systems, standards and vast, self-reinforcing user networks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
“It was this sort of self-reinforcing circuit, and it helped.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2026
The research provides some of the clearest evidence yet that Antarctica's ice sheet can undergo self-reinforcing, widespread melting when the planet warms.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025
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