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"It takes us months to recruit one individual to work in this field, train them and prepare them to provide compassionate, caring support to a person with an intellectual and developmental disability," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

So we have no shortage of things we need to do in order to be compassionate toward each other.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Al-Megrahi was released by Scottish authorities on compassionate grounds in 2009 as he was suffering from terminal cancer.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

The agency will use its technology to identify conditions from the compassionate allowances list so that it can expedite claims processing.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

And I heard a gasp from one of the women who gazed at him with shining, compassionate eyes.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Fortune hath compassionated my case, and felt pity for the length of my torment, And granted me what I desired, and removed that which I dreaded.

From Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental by Charles John Tibbitts

Ernest, seeing how solitary and melancholy he appeared, compassionated the poor fellow, and never lost an opportunity of speaking kindly to him.

From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by William I. Thomas

Perhaps they are rather to be envied than compassionated; for it is manifest that for them, duty—to use the eloquent expression of an English divine—has become transfigured into happiness.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

The first insinuated, that Ellis thought it fine and lady-like to affect being frightened; the second saw, and compassionated, in her failure, the natural effect of distressed modesty, mingled with wounded pride.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

She compassionated their sufferings, and had respect for their cause.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

Mr. Hearne is hardly sympathetic toward those who wrong women, but I hear “Consent” as compassionating all of us who have been bequeathed unequal, curdled social relations.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

“A body can’t play a symphony next to a man, without compassionating with his woes.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

It is the sort of compassionating, commiserating estimate imaginative girls occasionally get up for dreary depressed fellows, constituting themselves discoverers of intellect that no one ever suspected—revealers of wealth that none had ever dreamed of.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever

He had compassionating friends; while I, besides the loss of my children, am left a prey to the savage beasts.

From Mediaeval Tales by Henry Morley

The visitor, therefore, compassionating the animal, although it had shown itself his determined foe, went out into the yard.

From Stories of Animal Sagacity by Harrison Weir