Self-perpetuating

"Self-perpetuating" in a Sentence (2 examples)

The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.

It's a self-perpetuating error, now that we've made it, we can't fix it without breaking things that depend on it.

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