compassionate
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The agency will use its technology to identify conditions from the compassionate allowances list so that it can expedite claims processing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 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
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
Actually, he was a very warm, compassionate man who never stopped feeling sorry for himself.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
She compassionated him from her heart, and thought she might be able to administer some comfort to him, as regarded Rhoda Maxfield.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
In the market-place I compassionated an unfortunate thief minus his right hand and left leg.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
And he was compassionated and pitied for being obliged to remain in so old-fashioned and out-of-the-way country town as insignificant Newberg.
From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Minnie Mary Lee
Fortune hath compassionated my case, and felt pity for the length of my torment, And granted me what I desired, and removed that which I dreaded.
From Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental by Charles John Tibbitts
Fersen, touched and pitying, was constantly thinking of that fatal palace of the Tuileries where the Queen was so much to be compassionated.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
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
He had compassionating friends; while I, besides the loss of my children, am left a prey to the savage beasts.
From Mediaeval Tales by Henry Morley
The Queen's Highness, compassionating, had bidden bear him to the castle and comfort and cure him, not having looked upon his face or heard his tongue.
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
He had suppressed an outburst of feeling, and now stood calm, compassionating, extending his hands,—his staff fallen upon the floor.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
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