Samaritan
Example Sentences
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The Samaritan Clinic is a small, free clinic serving people without health insurance in Albany, Georgia.
From Salon • Jan. 4, 2026
He was, by all accounts, acting as a Good Samaritan, trying to break up the fight.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
Miranda fashions himself equal parts good Samaritan, stuntman and documentary filmmaker.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
Countries around the world that enforce some kind of Good Samaritan law, legally protecting those who do assist from fear of being sued for "ordinary negligence", include the US, Canada and Finland.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
Like the power plant manager who quelled a riot in Huntington Beach, and the mysterious good Samaritan in Tustin who saved a whole bunch of people at a nursing home, then disappeared.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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