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Last year, the SSA added 13 ailments to its compassionate allowance list of conditions that are so severe they automatically meet Social Security’s strict definition of disability.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Their searching leads them to countless people, from journalists to police officials to a growing team of internet sleuths, who are compassionate and generous with their time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Rather, the book shares lessons she’s taken from years of therapy in the form of well-dressed animals dropping pearls of compassionate wisdom.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Here’s hoping that “Dad Brain” launches us toward rigorous studies and compassionate interpretations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

He eventually met a nurse there, a woman from Dothan, Alabama, whose compassionate care made him feel comfortable and hopeful for the first time, perhaps, in his entire life.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Erasmus, whose portrait he had so often made in many different positions, compassionated his poverty and lack of occupation and sent him with a note of introduction to Sir Thomas More.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

She compassionated him from her heart, and thought she might be able to administer some comfort to him, as regarded Rhoda Maxfield.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

Wherever Lenz appeared he was compassionated for the baseness of his father-in-law in thus robbing his own son.

From Edelweiss A Story by Auerbach, Berthold

She merely compassionated the men in that they were driven to brutishness.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

"Let us hear his own version; tell us unreservedly all that you know," said the president, who really spoke as if he compassionated my embarrassment.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James

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

At length the lady, compassionating his perplexity, again anxiously asked— "Do you remember a certain little gold-fish?"

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

"Le pauvre homme!" ejaculates the man, with a pretence at compassionating, under the circumstances ludicrous.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne

Faster fell the snow-flakes, cresting the waves of her hair like foam, and setting her teeth firmly, as if thereby locking the door against all compassionating compunctions.

From Macaria by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)