"self-fulfilling" meaning in English

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          "text": "The prediction of poor turnout for the event was self-fulfilling: once people heard the turnout would be bad, they didn't come.",
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          "text": "Whether or not we believe in astrology is irrelevant; the question is, did the Magdalenians? If so, then in a self-fulfilling prophecy they may have been organizing their lives according to a religious belief system, and not simply an economic or ecological one.",
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          "sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
          "word": "sebenaplňující"
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          "sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
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          "sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
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          "word": "autoréalisateur"
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          "sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
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          "sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
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          "word": "selbsterfüllend"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
          "word": "féin-chomhlíontach"
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          "sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
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      "sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
      "word": "sebenaplňující"
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      "sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
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