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The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.—Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025 While the owner is thankful for Frank's selfless act of caring for her bestie's babies, the house isn't the same without Thunder.—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025 Humble, selfless, confident, brave, an encyclopedia of knowledge and experience about the 20th century until now.—Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025 Insisting a relative stranger get into her car to catch their last train home is perhaps the purest distillation of the selfless and protective instinct for which she is known on the pitch.—Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for selfless
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