Example Sentences

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It is not for the benefit of the whole; it is for self-benefit out of fear.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2022

She succumbed to the allure of self-benefit, when succumbing meant a higher chance of being liked.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2019

“Some decide to use situations as a platform for their own self-benefit, but I’m not concerned with those people,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2018

As organized, systematic, and absolute frankness, besides self-benefit, would at once, as it were, take the wind out of our opponents' saiils.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Leffingwell, Albert