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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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Other thinkers have reflected on the generosity of the shrub and its fruit.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
27 June 2025
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Unfortunately, a drunken Ben makes a heinous error in judgment that abruptly extinguishes the generosity of their hosts.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
27 June 2025
Noun
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How naive of me to expect that those in the public eye would at least pretend to possess tact, diplomacy, magnanimity and graciousness rather than bark and growl like an angry pit bull on a thick clanking chain.—
Louis Balsamo,
Baltimore Sun,
25 June 2025
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His magnanimity may have been intended to compensate for his earlier razing of Rotterdam and to preclude his prosecution for ordering the extermination of thousands of Russian Jews.—
Sam Roberts,
Foreign Affairs,
2 June 2015
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“Self-sacrifice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-sacrifice. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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