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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

So we have no shortage of things we need to do in order to be compassionate toward each other.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The wise and compassionate Prometheus, too, found that out.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

At the siege of Preston, in which those who fell dead upon the field were less to be compassionated than the survivors, Lord Kenmure was taken prisoner.

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

One, at least, knew of my existence, and possibly pitied and compassionated my desolation.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas 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

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

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

I slept that night in a prison, and ate of prison fare,—ravenously and eagerly too; so much so that the turnkey, compassionating me, fetched me some of his own supper to satisfy my cravings.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever

It was suggested to the dying rabbi that if compassionating folk would render him up a portion of their lives, Hakkadosh might attain his fourscore years.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

I saw how he was drawn to her more and more on the pretext of compassionating her loneliness, and I looked on, paralysed with agony that I might lose him a second time.

From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann