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self-righting

American  
[self-rahy-ting] / sɛlfˈraɪ tɪŋ /

adjective

  1. able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.


Example Sentences

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Lister views this as a way to restore a crucial self-righting mechanism to an ecosystem thrown haywire, an ecosystem where “nothing makes sense” any more.

From The Guardian

That being said, this was an out-of-sorts performance from the Easter Road side that never looked like self-righting after a dreadful start.

From BBC

Ebo is mobile, autonomous, and can live-stream video to your phone It’s mobile, whizzing around on a pair of self-righting wheels, and can entertain your pet under its own steam using a combination of lights, sounds, and a feather on its head.

From The Verge

As a crewman, she experienced the light-dark-light full rollover of a self-righting 47, and came back for more.

From Seattle Times

Like the legions of Surfmen before her, Shafer learned to drive the Coast Guard’s primary rescue steed, a powerful, self-righting, 47-foot lifeboat, the hard way: doing it wrong, debriefing and heading back into the salty maw.

From Seattle Times