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“When I talk about compassionate accountability, it’s not just a campaign slogan for me,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

In her groups she said she encountered "desperate" parents navigating a "lack of appropriate and compassionate bereavement care" and a "huge lack of consistency" across health boards.

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

"Kim should be over here in a second. I asked for her to come and give us—well, really, give you the rundown on what's happening with him," Black said as compassionate as he could.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds

The few who enter it will be compassionated much as a minister is who undertakes a dangerous foreign mission.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

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

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

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

Dead!" cried the kind-hearted girl, her dark eyes filling with compassionating tears; "poor little thing!

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

"Le pauvre homme!" ejaculates the man, with a pretence at compassionating, under the circumstances ludicrous.

From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid

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