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self-limiting
[self-lim-i-ting]
adjective
limiting oneself or itself.
a self-limiting authority.
(of a disease) self-limited.
Other 51Թ Forms
- self-limitation noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of self-limiting1
Example Sentences
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: self-limiting.
The laboratory-produced mosquitoes carry a "self-limiting" gene that prevents female mosquito offspring from surviving to adulthood when they mate.
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.
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.
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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