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altruism

[al-troo-iz-uhm] / ˈæl truˌɪz əm /


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The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award was established in 2002 to honor an individual in the television industry whose humanitarian efforts exemplify those of its namesake and his altruism.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

Moneyist readers have shown that anonymity and altruism are not strange bedfellows.

From MarketWatch Jun. 20, 2026

Karnofsky was the founder of a philanthropy that promoted effective altruism, a movement that was one of the first communities to take the potential power, and danger, of AI seriously.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

This had gone way beyond altruism, they thought.

From Slate Mar. 25, 2026

Their discovery: when people are given a small stipend for donating blood rather than simply being praised for their altruism, they tend to donate less blood.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

She tells us that Mr. Paice's life was one long series of gentle altruisms and the truest Christianities.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Unselfishness, devotion, pity and the higher altruisms all hark back to the home as their source.

From Woman in Modern Society by Earl Barnes

Those who had glasses were mostly on the upper deck, so Jimmie did not see anything of the rescue; the transports, of course, did not swerve or delay, for their orders forbade all altruisms.

From Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair




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