How to Use altruist in a Sentence

altruist

noun

• As the park’s lamps clicked on and night arrived, so, too, did the stream of altruists.
  — John Woodrow Cox, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• That means that the benefit to the recipient is 100 times greater than the cost to the altruist.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2011
• This is how an effective altruist might think about the war in Ukraine: What is its scale?
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2022
• Even in times of crisis, Bankman-Fried is ever the effective altruist.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
• Now no one will trust EAs [effective altruists] and Doomers ever again.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
• Not that the rest of us are out of luck, but the altruistic urge among bystanders increases the more the victim exhibits these traits and the more the would-be altruist perceives that aid could be effective.
  — David P. Barash, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• But what if one of them turns out to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing, someone who pretends to be an altruist but is, in fact, a megalomaniac or a criminal?
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
• All the world also loves an altruist, someone who gives time, money or assistance to another.
  — David P. Barash, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• Wang and Singh had also become effective altruists, pledging to donate most of their earnings.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Bold-face altruists such as Margaret Williams were among those indulging at the admittedly addictive cookie spread.
  — Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2019
• Effective altruists fret that their movement might, in fact, have very limited appeal.
  — The Economist, 2 June 2018
• On one side stood the effective altruist faction, to which former board member Helen Toner subscribed, that worries about a doomsday-like scenario where AI could destroy the world.
  — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
• Inevitably, even effective altruists have to accept a degree of uncertainty about the impact of their donation.
  — The Economist, 2 June 2018
• An effective altruist looks to data to decide where and when to donate to a cause, basing the decision on impersonal goals like saving the most lives, or creating the most income, per dollar donated.
  — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• One adventurer’s selfish act more than 50 years ago might not bear emphasizing—except that Tompkins later became a famous altruist who renounced the business world and moved to a cabin in Patagonia.
  — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2021
• Called rationalists or effective altruists, members of this movement were instrumental in the creation of OpenAI.
  — Cade Metz, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• Altruism is behavior that benefits someone other than the altruist.
  — Lynn Johnson, National Geographic, 3 Jan. 2018
• Effective altruists were once primarily concerned with near-term issues like global poverty and animal welfare.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• Her altruistic response model, by contrast, applies to quick mental processing and immediate reactions (e.g., Mr. Autrey), the kind of deeds later described by the often-heroic altruist as automatic rather than thought out.
  — David P. Barash, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• Many effective altruists have taken inspiration from the philosopher Peter Singer, who argues that, when more than a billion people in the developing world are impoverished and suffering, spending on luxuries is morally flawed.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Effective altruists congregate the world over with nearly 400 global chapters, often connected to high-ranking universities or tech centers.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 20 July 2019
• Our results confirm that natural selection favours altruist genes that are increasingly accurate in targeting altruism to only their copies.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2010
• The billionaire crypto founder is a longtime effective altruist, a philosophy that advocates for maximizing the amount of good generated when considering donations to charity.
  — Fortune, 1 June 2022
• Caroline Ellison’s rationalist Tumblr (archived here) documented her crypto-trading, effective altruist lifestyle, and provided food for analysis for dozens of think pieces.
  — Allegra Rosenberg, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2023
• Now, Cremer advocates that effective altruists should contribute to society by using their vast network of organizations to experiment with new and more effective forms of institutional decision making.
  — Emily Washburn, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024