altruist

noun

Definition of altruistnext
as in donor

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Recent Examples of altruist Many effective altruists are skeptical of the speed of today’s AI development and have long called for regulation to guide it. — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026 This is even true of the cold, hard atheists—the effective altruists. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2026 In December, White House AI czar David Sacks shared a tweet from Andy Masley, the head of an effective altruist organization in Washington, DC, whose Substack posts casting doubt on the environmental impacts of AI have gained popularity. — Molly Taft, Wired News, 13 Jan. 2026 On average, organ donors scored higher on empathy, and effective altruists scored higher on reflective reasoning – slowing down and thinking things through. — Stylianos Syropoulos, The Conversation, 2 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for altruist
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  1. donor
  2. giver
  3. benefactor
  4. contributor
  5. philanthropist
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  • What donors and kids get Another potential upside for donors is a whole new class of shareholders, Gentry said.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Simmons had about 1,850 contributions, though those don’t all equate to one donor.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of donor
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  • The world’s largest givers This week, Bridgespan also updated its rankings of the world’s largest corporate and institutional givers, based on average annual giving between 2020 and 2024.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026
  • There’s also a gap between how givers and recipients think about AI involvement.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of giver
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  • Harvard and its peer institutions won’t suddenly stop caring about their largest benefactors.
    — Jayson Weingarten, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Now, RadarOnline has confirmed that some of the celebration was paid by a Russian benefactor, oligarch Umar Kremlev, a close ally of Vladimir Putin.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of benefactor
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  • If an individual contributor directs three agents, who owns their output?
    — Keith Ferrazzi, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • But Georgetown found that by 2025, DHS had contributed over 3 million profiles to CODIS, and ICE alone added 920,000, making the agency the primary contributor to the nation's criminal DNA database.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of contributor
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  • At the suggestion of local philanthropists Mark and Robin Seigle, members were planning to donate any funding left beyond the above to create an arts scholarship at ECC in memory of Jones and Hamilton Wings.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • For his part, Nagendran is a philanthropist, physician, and biotechnology executive in Arizona who heads research and development at Taysha Gene Therapies.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of philanthropist

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“Altruist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/altruist. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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