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self-correcting
self-correcting adj.
Brit. 
/ˌsɛlfkəˈrɛktɪŋ/
, /ˌsɛlfkəˈrɛktɪŋ/U.S. /ˌsɛlfkəˈrɛktɪŋ/
/ˌsɛlfkəˈrɛktɪŋ/ΚΠ
1803 Crit. Rev. Feb. 147 The self-correcting principle of an animal body will be enabled to exert itself with the greatest vigour.
1908 Southern Reporter 45 842/2 The description..showed that the act of 1891 was the one which was intended to be amended, and consequently the mistake was self-correcting.
2006 Orion Nov. 1/1 The Gaia theory, the hypothesis that all life on Earth functions like a self-correcting organism.
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- to give a pass
- to give a pause
- to give a period to
- to give a person a backie
- to give a person a bloody nose
- to give a person a clean chit
- to give a person a credit for
- to give a person a dead leg
- to give a person a doing
- to give a person a etc seeing to
- to give a person a fall
- to give a person a foot
- to give a person a good seeing to
- to give a person a hand up
- to give a person a hard time
- to give a person a leg up
- to give a person a look-over
- to give a person a lookover
- to give a person a meeting
- to give a person a pain
- to give a person a pain in the etc
- to give a person a pain in the in the arse
- to give a person a pain in the neck
- to give a person a piece of one's mind
- to give a person a pig of his etc own sow