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Adjective
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Both were similar, with quick passing and unselfish assists.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026 -
Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla raved about the unselfish mindset Holiday brought to Boston’s locker room during his two seasons with the franchise.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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But Oppenheimer sees the act as fundamentally selfless—Lucy has the tape back and could walk away, but seeing Diana cry makes that impossible.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
17 Feb. 2026
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Having that selfless mindset, being able to create for others, has been crucial for us on this run.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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There are altruistic reasons to visit Molotov Kitschen + Cocktails, a Ukrainian restaurant directly facing Colfax Avenue street construction for the foreseeable future.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
18 Feb. 2026
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Although it's become controversial in recent years, the reality is that surrogacy can be an intimate, collaborative, and often altruistic process—but those characteristics of the process rarely make it into public conversations.—
Kris Ann Valdez,
Parents,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Malinin was magnanimous afterward, hugging and congratulating surprise gold medalist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan.—
Dave Skretta,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
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Speaking of an open dialogue, back in 2014, D was magnanimous when KISS finally got their turn after 15 years of Rock Hall eligibility.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
13 Feb. 2026
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In her first campaign for City Council in 2020, Raman ran on a promise to address the city’s homelessness crisis in a humanitarian way, by moving unhoused residents into temporary and permanent housing.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2026
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The emails revealed no criminal behavior on Wasserman’s part but did reveal suggestive communications between him and Maxwell following a humanitarian trip Wasserman and his wife took with Epstein to Africa over 20 years ago.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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There’s the self-sacrificing Texas teenager who’s helping her mom make ends meet by cashing out her own college fund.—
Jason Linkins,
The New Republic,
25 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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In some cases, researchers may have an idea that is not aligned strategically with how the university is raising philanthropic funds.—
Brian Herman,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
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This program would create a voluntary, philanthropic pathway to fund park infrastructure and maintenance without charging people to park.—
Shane Harris,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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That Asian brand of service—warm, thoughtful, and generous—is alive and well here.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
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But, of course, no good deed goes unscrutinized, and those donations have been raising some prickly questions, especially online, where not everyone has been feeling so generous about Van Der Beek’s GoFundMe campaign.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Self-forgetting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-forgetting. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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