self-reinforcing

American  

[self-ree-in-fawrs-ing] / ˌsɛlfˌri ɪnˈfɔrs ɪŋ /

adjective

1. reinforcing, strengthening, or perpetuating itself, typically through a feedback loop.

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Example Sentences

The company’s good news likely forced investors who sell the stock short to buy more shares to limit their losses, driving the price even higher in a self-reinforcing loop.

From Barron's

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

This may have its amusingly juvenile aspects in Capitol Hill bars after work, but it is the visible manifestation of a cumulative and self-reinforcing radicalization.

From Salon

The supply side remains pressured by tariffs but not in a self-reinforcing way as fiscal and monetary conditions are not stimulating demand as they did in 2020 and 2021, when the last supply shock hit the economy.

From MarketWatch

These shifts could become self-reinforcing.

From Science Daily