altruistically

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Recent Examples of altruistically Giving altruistically may be unrealistic when the sun confronts Neptune. Usa Today, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025 But sellers do not offer lower prices to some consumers altruistically. George Slover, Time, 6 Aug. 2025 And while Spock's heroics necessitated a major plot twist to revive his character for the next Star Trek sequel, teaching turbines to behave altruistically requires just a small (but intelligent) tweak to their control systems. IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for altruistically
Adverb
  • Vance Joseph tried outfitting himself in a modest tone, even if his unit hasn’t exactly acted benevolently toward its training camp counterpart.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • These days, Christmas movies, broadly and charitably defined, seem to be synonymous with the brassy, hokey, sickly sweet sort of fare that has a permanent home on the Hallmark Channel and is in perpetual rotation on Netflix.
    Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In effect, this is just a trope of mondo films — or, less charitably, mockumentaries.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This part of the story is a story in itself, but the wars and the result left two-thirds of the recruits dead and rendered Rusty’s appendages useless as he selflessly piloted night and day to fight off every rogue machine.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Some were neighbors who fostered young children in need of a home, a pharmacist who selflessly served the same community for decades or a veteran who fearlessly died for her country.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Nor from showing how Bull unselfishly and painfully gets in the way when preventing Sterling from mounting his beloved Honey.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • She was humanely euthanized over the weekend after falling for the second time in a month.
    Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • To take part in the challenge, participants were required to pass an online training, as per the event's website, and had to kill the pythons humanely.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Altruistically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/altruistically. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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