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“It is so much more compassionate, so much more authentic,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The committee said it recognised that "short-term absences may arise without notice in cases of emergency or on compassionate grounds".

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

For many years, if you needed to take a flight due to a family member’s death or impending death, airlines would offer a discounted bereavement, or compassionate, ticket.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Their searching leads them to countless people, from journalists to police officials to a growing team of internet sleuths, who are compassionate and generous with their time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

From that night on Aureliano took refuge in the compassionate tenderness and understanding of his unknown great-great-grandmother.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And in truth the wretched young man was much to be compassionated.

From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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

From The Friars in the Philippines by Ambrose Coleman

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

Colonel Fraser rose to the rank of lieutenant-general, and died in 1782 without issue; he was generally respected and compassionated.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Mrs. Thomson

In the history of literature nothing can be found so much to be compassionated as the life led by him during those summer months in the great city.

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

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 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

About this time, the hospital or college of St. Juan de Letran was founded by Juan Geronimo Romero, who compassionating the situation of unfortunate orphans, took them into his house, and carefully brought them up.

From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Martinez de Zuniga