How to Use altruistic in a Sentence

altruistic

adjective
  • If one of the buyers was altruistic, that kind of thing could happen.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • More than one-third expect to see a more altruistic world emerge.
    Kelley Swing, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2021
  • But what seemed like altruistic acts by large lenders meant to keep the banking system afloat have turned into big wins for some of the world’s largest banks.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
  • So a little bit of this is very important, even for the most altruistic leaders of all time.
    CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The 25-year-old credits his parents for his altruistic ways.
    Ana Pelayo Connery, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Rita left no doubt that Madigan did not often rule the House based on altruistic goals.
    Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • Sharon has built a veteran-facing altruistic system, where the company gets paid by the lenders, but the Vets are not required to pay a dime.
    Annie Brown, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But as the process becomes less rooted in emotion, the mindset has become less altruistic.
    Hannah Jackson, ELLE, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Yasmin was surprised at the amount of joy this altruistic decision brought her.
    Edikan Umoh, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Next, equally important, is that the research needs to be of an altruistic nature.
    Payal Dhar, Wired, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Shooting the final scenes, Brosnan was in full altruistic mode.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Venus, your ruling planet, now in Aries, induces you to keep a somewhat low profile and to express your altruistic side.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Liam opened up about his brother’s altruistic decision to The Independent at the time, sharing that his parents were stunned by the act.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Some studies find that women in general tend to be more altruistic than men.
    Holly Corbett, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But with that altruistic gesture from her husband, Kaiser’s love of painting was reawakened.
    Seth Combscontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Irsay first got hooked on baseball cards, though with less than altruistic motives.
    Ken Belson, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • So why not start some new holiday traditions that are both fun and altruistic?
    Martha Shade, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
  • But the case for using Hunt more this season isn’t completely altruistic.
    cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Since Google has been displaying pay-to-play lists at the top of organic search results, some believe their motives aren’t altruistic.
    Scott Miraglia, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Why does a question so sensible, so altruistic, feel so strange?
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Yet cases where death row inmates have been allowed to become altruistic organ donors are few and far between.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • But, as many of her fans would surely point out, there is also an altruistic component to the move that goes beyond mere cash generation.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Che Fico is the latest example of a Bay Area restaurant making this kind of altruistic effort.
    Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Your head is in a giving place with the moon coordinating with altruistic Neptune.
    USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The altruistic model is supposed to make sure a surrogate neither profits from the arrangement nor is left out of pocket.
    Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Therefore, those who score high on this trait tend to be altruistic and community-minded.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The novel positions him as insensible to agendas, hopelessly subject to the whims of the altruistic and the cruel.
    Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Winnie’s brother and father (Joel McHale) become an altruistic real estate duo on the rise.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • However, the genes only result in altruistic behavior when they are passed down from the female bee parent.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2023
  • At times, the altruistic movement runs up against thorny realities.
    Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021

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