compassionate
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“We have always been transparent, compassionate, and committed to giving these dogs a second chance. This situation is not only devastating—it threatens the future of our entire rescue,” the plea reads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Returning from compassionate leave, he said his father would have wanted him "back out there" to bring forward "the changes that he always pushed me to make".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
That combination has made AI a surprisingly effective coach in my quest to become a more thoughtful, compassionate person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"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
Sarai uncovered her eyes and found Great Ellen restored to human form, the excoriating hawk gaze replaced by a piercing but compassionate human one.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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
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 James J. Walsh
He compassionated me as He compassionates the unhappy who invoke Him.
From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field
My misfortunes are compassionated, but that soothes not my wounded spirit, and is but a hateful substitute for the love I crave.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
None: or at most this miserable, morbid, compassionated Giovanni: whom Ford would have us admire, and whom we can only despise.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I by Vernon 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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“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
The poor people in the villages through which I passed, compassionating me and my little girl, gave us all the assistance in their power.
From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston
What a loving, compassionating Mother she already is!
From Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady by Mother St. Paul
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