How to Use altruism in a Sentence

altruism

noun
  • This isn’t just about altruism, though.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But this is not solely an act of altruism.
    — Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • And it need not be viewed as just a form of corporate altruism.
    — Steve Case, Time, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Is this the altruism of a selfless person and my ego getting in the way?
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Most people who donate their bodies do it out of a sense of altruism.
    — Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 10 June 2019
  • This altruism is the reason many workers choose to migrate abroad in the first place.
    — Laura Caron, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Is the way to do the most good to destroy effective altruism?
    — Mary Childs, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2023
  • They’d been drawn by the pay, but also by a sense of altruism and imagined kinship.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Gomez has approached the drama with some snark but mostly altruism.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • As Popovich likes to point out, this isn’t simply good-hearted altruism.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • And then there are those who take their altruism a step further by becoming two-time organ donors.
    — Stephanie O'Neill, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Do lions reward acts of altruism, like Aesop’s big cat with a thorn in its paw?
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
  • For societies hit by tragedy, finding attributes such as trust and altruism can take hard work.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2017
  • So far, all of this fits predictions about altruism, although the effects were small.
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 24 Oct. 2017
  • As the moon and Neptune clash, someone seeks to exploit your altruism!
    — USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • There’s a sense of idealism and altruism, and wanting to make a difference in the world.
    — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • What are some pop culture examples of altruism?
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Yet Salk’s greatest act of altruism may have been his decision not to patent the vaccine.
    — Gerald Joyce, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025
  • All altruism involves some benefit for the helper, Cole agrees.
    — Elin Kelsey, Smithsonian, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Eh, there’s another instance where no one should be fooled by Jack’s claims of total altruism.
    — Kimberly Potts, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Feeding people is more than simple altruism.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Squid Game is an elimination game, but there are these moments of deep altruism and kindness even amongst it.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Nov. 2025
  • But there are also times when her altruism surely runs in short supply, and our queen’s gotta hit the road like any A-lister must.
    — Nathan Smith, Vulture, 26 June 2024
  • 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
  • Forbes contributor Mark Travers writes that altruism in the workplace can go too far.
    — Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Flash Forest effort is part of a broader drone-altruism effort.
    — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021

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