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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

"We remain committed to learning from this and to providing inclusive, compassionate care for all our patients," they said.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

“It is so much more compassionate, so much more authentic,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

No one exemplifies this generous worldview better than Lotta, who turns out not to be the villain of May’s darkest imaginings but a complicated, compassionate and rather philosophical human being.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

It was impossible to tell if she was old or young, but her expression was austere and compassionate, and both Will and Lyra felt as if she knew them to their hearts.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Not so here; he—or she, to speak more properly—is tenderly treated and compassionated; all the little blandishments of society showered on her.

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

The few who enter it will be compassionated much as a minister is who undertakes a dangerous foreign mission.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

She had compassionated him in his troubles, and he had told her in what alone his hope of comfort lay.

From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn

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 Berthold Auerbach

Her punishment was regarded as a creditable act of justice, and the King was compassionated as a sufferer from abominable ingratitude.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude

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

How long this might have lasted I know not, had not a person in the dogana, compassionating my dullness, stepped up to me, and whispered into my ear to give the searcher a few paulos.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie

"I know what I am about, Tom," whispered Somers, compassionating the misery his apparently mutinous actions must cause his honest friend.

From Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck by Oliver Optic

He was instantly carried into a miller's cottage by people who knew nothing of his rank, but, compassionating his distress, treated him with great humanity.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various