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The Welsh government said NHS staff are "working incredibly hard" to give patients compassionate care, and early plans are in place to help with a challenging winter.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Your response to his three children’s accusations is a compassionate one.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Julie said that bereavement midwives offered "good, compassionate care" for parents going through the review process, as well as those who return for subsequent pregnancies which can often be traumatising.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Is it compassionate to leave people detached from reality out on the cold street, or to police when something terrible happens?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“I’m not crazy. I’m compassionate. No, I’m more than compassionate; I’m...considerate,” Juanita said, using the word correctly.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Erasmus, whose portrait he had so often made in many different positions, compassionated his poverty and lack of occupation and sent him with a note of introduction to Sir Thomas More.

From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh

None: or at most this miserable, morbid, compassionated Giovanni: whom Ford would have us admire, and whom we can only despise.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I by Vernon Lee

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

He won his confidence, genuinely compassionated his anxieties, and presently pledged himself to a most kindly office—the care and provision in future for the child soon to be fatherless; long before this time motherless.

From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Edward Prime-Stevenson

My misfortunes are compassionated, but that soothes not my wounded spirit, and is but a hateful substitute for the love I crave.

From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling

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

Nay, even though you had just before fallen down and broken your leg, would the compassionating by-standers be justified in forcing him to take you in?

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

I could not help compassionating the bishop when he said this, knowing what he was likely to receive.

From Francezka by Molly Elliot Seawell

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