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The trust said providing "safe and compassionate care" was at the "heart of what we do".

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Some are dogs who have also been displaced by the war; others are compassionate humans, including a humanitarian worker with the power of canine communication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

“If you do not cry yourself to sleep on a regular basis, you are not compassionate enough to be a scythe.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

"Let us hear his own version; tell us unreservedly all that you know," said the president, who really spoke as if he compassionated my embarrassment.

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

He had, as she acknowledged, compassionated her forlorn condition, assisted her with food and money; indeed, through his means, and that of other charitable people in the neighbourhood, she had been enabled to exist.

From Won from the Waves by John B. Greene

The people compassionated us and relieved us as much as possible.

From The Friars in the Philippines by Ambrose Coleman

You compassionated the unfortunate and that is the finest jewel in a juror's crown....

From The Gods are Athirst by Emilie Jackson

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

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

Faster fell the snow-flakes, cresting the waves of her hair like foam, and setting her teeth firmly, as if thereby locking the door against all compassionating compunctions.

From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

He died on the scaffold, but with the greatest serenity, forgiving his persecutors, and compassionating their delusions.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

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