altruistic
Example Sentences
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He believed the "altruistic" company would do well by its investors and staff.
From BBC
By aligning activity between specific brain regions, the team found they could slightly increase altruistic behavior.
From Science Daily
"The population is like one big family," he says, "there is less taboo about these issues, and we are an altruistic population, many sperm donors also donate blood."
From BBC
Cremer concludes, "This precise coordination between the individual and colony level is what makes this altruistic disease signaling so effective."
From Science Daily
Some claim that “altruistic” surrogacy, where payment is limited to “pregnancy-related expenses,” makes it ethical.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
