self-fulfilling

• Charlie's death could have been a self-fulfilling prophecy: he sacrificed his life because he believed he was going to die anyway. —  Sledgeweb's LOST ... STUFF
• "This was pretty much a self-fulfilling prophecy as deteriorating values continued to result in more write-downs and capital erosion," he notes.
• Still, I get the feeling that all the supplier reps are being careful not to give in to the self-fulfilling doom 'n gloom prophecies.
• But what we have here, of course, is a self-fulfilling prophecy. —  The New American
• More broadly, there was also some kind bad expectations trap, in which everyone expected everyone else to default and that kind of fear of counterparty risk is obviously self-fulfilling. —  TPMCafe

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