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“As Chief of Police, I remain committed to leading a department that delivers professional, constitutional, and compassionate policing to all Angelenos,” the statement read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

“When I talk about compassionate accountability, it’s not just a campaign slogan for me,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Your response to his three children’s accusations is a compassionate one.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Is it compassionate to leave people detached from reality out on the cold street, or to police when something terrible happens?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

I didn't expect him to be compassionate or generous.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Ernest, seeing how solitary and melancholy he appeared, compassionated the poor fellow, and never lost an opportunity of speaking kindly to him.

From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by William I. Thomas

The first insinuated, that Ellis thought it fine and lady-like to affect being frightened; the second saw, and compassionated, in her failure, the natural effect of distressed modesty, mingled with wounded pride.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Our new friend evidently compassionated our forlorn condition; indeed, now that the necessity for exerting ourselves was over, we both sank down utterly exhausted on the deck.

From Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler by James Durden

He won his confidence, genuinely compassionated his anxieties, and presently pledged himself to a most kindly office—the care and provision in future for the child soon to be fatherless; long before this time motherless.

From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Edward Prime-Stevenson

Perhaps they are rather to be envied than compassionated; for it is manifest that for them, duty—to use the eloquent expression of an English divine—has become transfigured into happiness.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

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

The visitor, therefore, compassionating the animal, although it had shown itself his determined foe, went out into the yard.

From Stories of Animal Sagacity by Harrison Weir

He lacked no attentions, though, himself, for, compassionating the state of the invalid’s health, both Dutch and Hester tried hard to make the meeting pleasant to him.

From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by George Manville Fenn

It is the sort of compassionating, commiserating estimate imaginative girls occasionally get up for dreary depressed fellows, constituting themselves discoverers of intellect that no one ever suspected—revealers of wealth that none had ever dreamed of.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever