compassionate
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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
“It is so much more compassionate, so much more authentic,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
In a passage a more compassionate editor might have removed, Vance reveals the higher power he seems to actually worship.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 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
The compassionate Father Abbot consoled the sad squirrel.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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At the siege of Preston, in which those who fell dead upon the field were less to be compassionated than the survivors, Lord Kenmure was taken prisoner.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Mrs. Thomson
He compassionated me as He compassionates the unhappy who invoke Him.
From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field
One, at least, knew of my existence, and possibly pitied and compassionated my desolation.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
In the market-place I compassionated an unfortunate thief minus his right hand and left leg.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
And he was compassionated and pitied for being obliged to remain in so old-fashioned and out-of-the-way country town as insignificant Newberg.
From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Minnie Mary Lee
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
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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 Robert Taylor Conrad
"A severe service,—at least, one of rigid discipline," said D'Esmonde, with a compassionating expression of voice.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
“Le pauvre homme!” ejaculates the man, with a pretence at compassionating, under the circumstances ludicrous.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
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