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Recent Examples of self-sacrifice
In my experience, the legal industry often valorizes long hours and self-sacrifice, discouraging displays of vulnerability.
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Raquel Gomes, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Wilson told Newsweek that there's a narrative that motherhood involves self-sacrifice.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Finally, remember that leadership is an act of service, but service doesn’t mean self-sacrifice.
—Aaron Marcum, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
The Golden Globe nominee understands if fans were skeptical of his character Jim Hopper returning for Season 4 after he was seemingly obliterated while closing the gate to the Upside Down, the ultimate form of self-sacrifice to redeem him after his daughter’s death.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
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Raquel Gomes, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Wilson told Newsweek that there's a narrative that motherhood involves self-sacrifice.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Finally, remember that leadership is an act of service, but service doesn’t mean self-sacrifice.
—Aaron Marcum, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
The Golden Globe nominee understands if fans were skeptical of his character Jim Hopper returning for Season 4 after he was seemingly obliterated while closing the gate to the Upside Down, the ultimate form of self-sacrifice to redeem him after his daughter’s death.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-sacrifice
Noun
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There are some people who will criticize your generation’s altruism as childlike fantasy.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
14 June 2025
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And in humans the structure has been linked to traits such as trust, empathy, moral decision-making and extraordinary altruism.—
Tobias Kalenscher,
Scientific American,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Appreciate Wilson’s technical brilliance but also the emotional generosity of his choral arrangements in which falsetto yearning is granted bass underpinning.—
Armond White,
National Review,
18 June 2025
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That is, generosity declined as social distance increased.—
Tobias Kalenscher,
Scientific American,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Advertisement What Fellowes can’t countenance are privileged people who lack the magnanimity befitting their rank and, most of all, servants who are insufficiently grateful to their benevolent employers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
20 June 2025
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Courage is the habit of moving forward despite fear, and its associated virtues include perseverance, resilience, and magnanimity.—
Andrew Abela,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
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“Self-sacrifice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-sacrifice. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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