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Recent Examples of self-sacrifice
But when care becomes compulsion, and when support turns into self-sacrifice, the relationship begins to lose balance.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Meyer’s stroke of genius was to make her lead vampire an avatar of self-sacrifice and bodily temperance.
—Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025
In my experience, the legal industry often valorizes long hours and self-sacrifice, discouraging displays of vulnerability.
—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
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Meyer’s stroke of genius was to make her lead vampire an avatar of self-sacrifice and bodily temperance.
—Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025
In my experience, the legal industry often valorizes long hours and self-sacrifice, discouraging displays of vulnerability.
—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
See All Example Sentences for self-sacrifice
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-sacrifice
Noun
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But those same traits, like hedonism or a desire to dominate, can sometimes push them away from traits associated with goodness, like humility or altruism.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Back in the day, the USDA helped pay for screwworm eradication down to Panama out of not pure altruism but economic pragmatism: Establishing a 100-mile screwworm barrier there is cheaper than creating one at the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2025
Noun
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Hospitality, for us, is a reflection of our values—warmth, generosity, and community.—
Chelsea Davis,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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In the past week, The Athletic tried to do justice to both Diogo’s remarkable talent as a player and the qualities which made so many people warm to him: his spirit, generosity and determination.—
Andrew Fifield,
New York Times,
10 July 2025
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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 26 Jul. 2025.
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