compassionate
Example Sentences
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It was the Steyer I’ve heard on too many commercials: pugnacious, compassionate but spouting a whole bunch of boilerplate.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Huddersfield Town boss Liam Manning has left the club by mutual consent, two months after taking compassionate leave.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Khan Valbuena believes his lived experience as a gay Muslim who has faced bigotry will bring a compassionate perspective to a bench some complain is overrun with old-school tough-on-crime prosecutors.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Sara Wheeler’s “Jan Morris” is a compassionate and comprehensive biography of the Tiresias of travel writers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
And he, compassionate creature, who drew from me the arrows of sorrow one by one, listened, and when I came home I was not alone.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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