How to Use altruism in a Sentence

altruism

noun
  • Similarly, behaviors like altruism and social bonding are thought to have evolved to strengthen group cohesion and enhance collective survival.
    Quora, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
  • These blips of astonishment remind and encourage you to act as a piece of a greater whole, facilitating optimism, generosity, and altruism.
    Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The woman then swaps the bowls so the girl has more hot dog than her—altruism at its finest.
    Amelia Tait, Wired, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Is this the altruism of a selfless person and my ego getting in the way?
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2023
  • While MacAskill lies in the belly of the big fish, the fate of effective altruism hangs in the balance.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Epidemics of the past established an ethos of altruism in the U.S.
    Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Is the way to do the most good to destroy effective altruism?
    Mary Childs, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2023
  • This altruism is the reason many workers choose to migrate abroad in the first place.
    Laura Caron, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2020
  • And it need not be viewed as just a form of corporate altruism.
    Steve Case, Time, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In my story, the altruism of a few special men opened a doorway out of the box money had built.
    Sophie Strosberg, Parents, 26 Oct. 2023
  • One of the most critical mindset shifts for leaders is to move away from the idea of ESG as altruism.
    Rich Hutchinson, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2022
  • One way to do that is to appeal to a child’s natural sense of kindness and altruism.
    Heather Greenwood Davis, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2020
  • There’s a sense of idealism and altruism, and wanting to make a difference in the world.
    Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Her altruism doesn’t stop with her work at Marta’s House.
    Supattra Namnon, oregonlive, 22 July 2023
  • As Popovich likes to point out, this isn’t simply good-hearted altruism.
    Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Most people who donate their bodies do it out of a sense of altruism.
    Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 10 June 2019
  • In 2017, Chance the Rapper's altruism has been unmatched.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Do lions reward acts of altruism, like Aesop’s big cat with a thorn in its paw?
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The premise sounds straightforward: She’s decided to give a kidney to a stranger as an act of altruism.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
  • To work, such an entity must be built on more than simple altruism of the big for the small, but on self interest.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • But, her plan, an utter sham coated in altruism, had worked.
    Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • One example of the widespread altruism in the CCM field is Smith, now an elder statesmen.
    John Blake, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The idea for Jesper came from Pablos' search for the antithesis of Santa, who is a symbol of altruism.
    Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2019
  • And that is the beginning of altruism and communal work.
    Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • So far, all of this fits predictions about altruism, although the effects were small.
    Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Philanthropy and altruism are the distinctive traits off the court the NBA has embraced heavily over the years.
    Karl Bullock, SI.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The word altruism was coined around 1830 by French philosopher August Comte, as the opposite of egoism.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Gomez has approached the drama with some snark but mostly altruism.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Donated by Loser Steve Smith in a fit of crazed altruism.
    Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The Flash Forest effort is part of a broader drone-altruism effort.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021

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