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Recent Examples of self-sacrifice
Remember, the healthiest relationships don’t operate on scorekeeping, self-sacrifice or forced agreement.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Exploding Ants Are Also Incredible Foragers Beyond their dramatic self-sacrifice, exploding ants are renowned for their resourcefulness as foragers.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Spiritual themes in anime Anime often explores spiritual and philosophical questions by drawing on Japan’s religious traditions to examine themes of fate, self-sacrifice and the struggle between desire and duty.
—Ronald S. Green, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2025
There’s going to be a lot of self-sacrifice with these two!
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Exploding Ants Are Also Incredible Foragers Beyond their dramatic self-sacrifice, exploding ants are renowned for their resourcefulness as foragers.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Spiritual themes in anime Anime often explores spiritual and philosophical questions by drawing on Japan’s religious traditions to examine themes of fate, self-sacrifice and the struggle between desire and duty.
—Ronald S. Green, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2025
There’s going to be a lot of self-sacrifice with these two!
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-sacrifice
Noun
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The goal should be to complement extant altruism without supplanting it.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Many of these men cite a philosophy known as effective altruism (EA) as part of their reasoning.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
7 May 2025
Noun
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Your laughter, your spirit, generosity, humor, cheekiness, courage and loyalty is an incredible gift to me.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
28 May 2025
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What Thornton is striving toward, an embrace of generosity, of humanity being able to change what faith and religion even mean, is often moving.—
Ella Kemp,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
Noun
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Courage is the habit of moving forward despite fear, and its associated virtues include perseverance, resilience, and magnanimity.—
Andrew Abela,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
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As Trump’s second term commences, this magnanimity may be at stake.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Self-sacrifice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-sacrifice. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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