Definition of "self-correcting" []

• Correcting its or one's own mistakes. (adjective)
• Of or being a typewriter mechanism that allows for automatic correction of a typing error. (adjective)

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• "But it is self-correcting, which is why the rails lead so steadily upward and onward."
• "They finally saw what people such as I had been saying for a long time: The market is not self-correcting."
• "But voters cannot make this self-correcting mechanism work unless they have the facts."