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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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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"word": "sebenaplňující"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"word": "itsensä toteuttava"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"tags": [
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "selbsterfüllend"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"word": "féin-chomhlíontach"
},
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"word": "självuppfyllande"
}
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}
],
"word": "self-fulfilling"
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"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"word": "sebenaplňující"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"word": "itsensä toteuttava"
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"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"tags": [
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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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"word": "autoréalisatrice"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "selbsterfüllend"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"word": "féin-chomhlíontach"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "autocumplida"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
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"word": "autorrealizada"
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"sense": "describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted",
"word": "självuppfyllande"
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],
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}
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