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Recent Examples of egoless
On to neo-soul, a genre that could only be seen as a vessel for humble, egoless artistry to someone who has engaged with the genre primarily through interracial couple TikTok accounts and Instagram slideshows.
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Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Mar. 2026
Dosunmu always has taken an egoless approach to his role with the Bulls.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
With searing honesty, Keaton describes the rituals and emotions elicited by her eating disorder with egoless bravery.
—Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 Dec. 2025
Among them, not least, is the modest, egoless ideal of democratic tradition captured so perfectly in such American monuments as the Lincoln Memorial, which shows not a hero but a man, seated, in grave contemplation.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Mar. 2026
Dosunmu always has taken an egoless approach to his role with the Bulls.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
With searing honesty, Keaton describes the rituals and emotions elicited by her eating disorder with egoless bravery.
—Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 Dec. 2025
Among them, not least, is the modest, egoless ideal of democratic tradition captured so perfectly in such American monuments as the Lincoln Memorial, which shows not a hero but a man, seated, in grave contemplation.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for egoless
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The chef Gregory Gourdet, the son of Haitian immigrants, approaches France from the view of the colonies, moving from Vietnam to Louisiana but ever circling back to the Caribbean and its wealth of plantains, salt cod, Scotch bonnets, pikliz and not-so-humble rice and beans.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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After years of seeing Spirit lure leisure travellers, the major airlines, led by Delta, responded with humble basic-economy fares of their own.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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Tolentino is at least self-critical.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
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The findings, a year in the making, represent one of the most self-critical examinations any elite university has publicly undertaken.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 2026
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To strangers, Kay seemed demure, diffident, even shy, an impression her youthful appearance helped create.—
Charlotte Brooks,
Big Think,
13 Mar. 2026
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This small, diffident moment is one more reason to mourn his death.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
22 Dec. 2025
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That included a meek loss in Toronto, with Murray not participating on the second night of a back-to-back following a blowout loss at Detroit.—
Law Murray,
New York Times,
30 Mar. 2026
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The other, meek and mild-mannered.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Mar. 2026
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This film, so seemingly unassertive, apparently rambling and plotless, has a devastating impact and aftershock.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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Accommodating, which is unassertive and cooperative, prioritizes the needs and preferences of others over one’s own in order to maintain harmony.—
Ellen Choi,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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That bill is a direct response to a Supreme Court that handed the executive branch a dangerous blank check and a Congress too timid to push back.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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Who wants to follow a timid leader, right?—
Aditya Simha,
The Conversation,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Earlier this month, the Kremlin announced that this year’s Victory Day parade, held every May 9th in Red Square to commemorate the Soviet victory in the Second World War, which is typically a show of Russian might, would be a modest, small-scale affair.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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America’s 26th president also inspired the region’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park, which safeguards his modest log cabin and a pristine slice of the northern mixed grass prairie and many of the species Roosevelt would have encountered, including bison, prairie dogs and wild horses.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
8 May 2026
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“Egoless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/egoless. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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