How to Use altruistic in a Sentence

altruistic

adjective
  • Many are driven by their own altruistic visions for AI’s future, making their choice of company often based on its mission and leadership.
    Kylie Robison, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In speaking with casting director Ivy Isenberg, the actress learned that this kindness isn't entirely altruistic.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2024
  • This trend does have an altruistic side, too, as older relatives look to splash the cash among their families, helping the younger generations through the cost of living crisis by paying for their next vacation.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • If one of the buyers was altruistic, that kind of thing could happen.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Of the great altruistic idea of communism there is not a trace to be found in this party.
    Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
  • More than one-third expect to see a more altruistic world emerge.
    Kelley Swing, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2021
  • But what seemed like altruistic acts by large lenders meant to keep the banking system afloat have turned into big wins for some of the world’s largest banks.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
  • So a little bit of this is very important, even for the most altruistic leaders of all time.
    CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The bad part is full of hate and fear and blame, and is as selfish and destructive as the other is altruistic and constructive. . . .
    Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The 25-year-old credits his parents for his altruistic ways.
    Ana Pelayo Connery, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Rita left no doubt that Madigan did not often rule the House based on altruistic goals.
    Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • Sharon has built a veteran-facing altruistic system, where the company gets paid by the lenders, but the Vets are not required to pay a dime.
    Annie Brown, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Harrison Ford joined the MCU for the most altruistic of reasons: money.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 2 Aug. 2024
  • But as the process becomes less rooted in emotion, the mindset has become less altruistic.
    Hannah Jackson, ELLE, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Yasmin was surprised at the amount of joy this altruistic decision brought her.
    Edikan Umoh, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Next, equally important, is that the research needs to be of an altruistic nature.
    Payal Dhar, Wired, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Shooting the final scenes, Brosnan was in full altruistic mode.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Venus, your ruling planet, now in Aries, induces you to keep a somewhat low profile and to express your altruistic side.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Mar. 2023
  • To some extent, there might be an altruistic component to it.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The ultimate goal of the Pisces and Virgo eclipses is to be more altruistic and less critical, embrace our dreams and let go of fear, and move to a refined, conscious state of being.
    Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Liam opened up about his brother’s altruistic decision to The Independent at the time, sharing that his parents were stunned by the act.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Some studies find that women in general tend to be more altruistic than men.
    Holly Corbett, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But with that altruistic gesture from her husband, Kaiser’s love of painting was reawakened.
    Seth Combscontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Cancers have a very altruistic view of the world and believe that everybody should be happy and that everybody should be taken care of.
    Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
  • Irsay first got hooked on baseball cards, though with less than altruistic motives.
    Ken Belson, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • So why not start some new holiday traditions that are both fun and altruistic?
    Martha Shade, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
  • But the case for using Hunt more this season isn’t completely altruistic.
    cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Since Google has been displaying pay-to-play lists at the top of organic search results, some believe their motives aren’t altruistic.
    Scott Miraglia, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Why does a question so sensible, so altruistic, feel so strange?
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Yet cases where death row inmates have been allowed to become altruistic organ donors are few and far between.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 12 July 2022

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