compassionate
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It was the Steyer I’ve heard on too many commercials: pugnacious, compassionate but spouting a whole bunch of boilerplate.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
And as played in this 10-part series by Ella Bruccoleri, she is sympathetic, empathetic, compassionate and very, very sweet.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
She remembers her as a “loving, kind and compassionate young lady.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
Her daughter Nonhle Thema shared the news of her passing "with a heavy heart", as she paid tribute to her mother and her "compassionate" soul.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
A recurrent theme was of “hard-boiled, but not incorrigible inmates who somehow came around under the compassionate, but firm hand of the warden.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Vocabulary lists containing compassionate
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