Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Correcting its or one's own mistakes.
- adjective Of or being a typewriter mechanism that allows for automatic correction of a typing error.
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Examples
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But it is self-correcting, which is why the rails lead so steadily upward and onward.
Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009
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But it is self-correcting, which is why the rails lead so steadily upward and onward.
Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009
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But it is self-correcting, which is why the rails lead so steadily upward and onward.
Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009
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But voters cannot make this self-correcting mechanism work unless they have the facts.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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But voters cannot make this self-correcting mechanism work unless they have the facts.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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They finally saw what people such as I had been saying for a long time: The market is not self-correcting.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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They finally saw what people such as I had been saying for a long time: The market is not self-correcting.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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They finally saw what people such as I had been saying for a long time: The market is not self-correcting.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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But voters cannot make this self-correcting mechanism work unless they have the facts.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Most objectionable to me is the specious argument that “The Market” will take care of everything and be self-correcting and hence no laws or regulations are required at all – this despite all the evidence that the first thing that corporations do when faced with negative feedback from The Market is to bury it or ignore it.
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