do-gooding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for do-gooding
Noun
  • Equally, a business driven by altruism alone is unlikely to make enough money to survive for long.
    Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Trump has thus ended—or at least paused—the U.S. policy of strategic altruism.
    MILAN VAISHNAV, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Decentralized humanism leverages the architecture of Web3 but grounds it in dignity, agency and community.
    Sindhu Bhaskar, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • Palmer’s purpose throughout is to take the humanism out of the umanisti, as those who taught the Greek and Latin classics were called.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • The Gates Foundation announced that its commitment seeks to motivate investment from governments, the private sector and philanthropy.
    Thomas Gallagher, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Delivering actual solutions to women around the world is a complicated process that requires collaborations with governments, other philanthropies, and companies.
    Indrani Sen, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Do-gooding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/do-gooding. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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