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self-limiting

[ self-lim-i-ting ]

adjective

  1. limiting oneself or itself:

    a self-limiting authority.

  2. (of a disease) self-limited.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • -i·ٲtDz noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of self-limiting1

First recorded in 1860–65
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Example Sentences

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On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: self-limiting.

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The laboratory-produced mosquitoes carry a "self-limiting" gene that prevents female mosquito offspring from surviving to adulthood when they mate.

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Dobbs was never self-limiting to abortion—it was a save-the-date card for the religious right’s plan to come for the rest of our reproductive freedoms.

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While the oxidation of tantalum is usually self-limiting -- a key reason for its relatively long coherence time -- the team wanted to explore strategies to further restrain oxidation to see if they could improve the material's performance.

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In the season of giving, getting, and evaluating self-improvement advice, there’s a line between over-optimism and self-limiting skepticism.

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