compassionately

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Recent Examples of compassionately Harris compassionately explored these issues that many women faced later in life — and which rarely went represented on television. Time, 17 Sep. 2025 Each was compassionately euthanized Thursday. Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025 This means training businesses, libraries and public service workers to interact compassionately with people living with cognitive impairments. Taylor Penn-Vessels, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for compassionately
Adverb
  • The musicians standing with him smile sympathetically.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Safdie sympathetically, vividly recounts the pressure to win, the violence in the ring, the addiction that saw Kerr OD twice.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Her team now plans to test ways to safely and humanely reduce the invasive rat population around bat hibernation spots, like the cave in Bad Segeberg.
    NPR, NPR, 8 Nov. 2025
  • To make new plantings a little more pest-proof, experiment with repellent sprays, like putrid egg solids, hot pepper spray, and humanely sourced predator spray.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • In a now-viral video, Dart was seen sweetly interacting with a young boy named Giuseppi.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Mirren now calls Zegler, rather sweetly, Little Rachel.
    Helen Mirren, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • High tide timing varies up to 90 minutes earlier or later along the coast and throughout the Bay respectfully.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Even as tourists from around the world wander the cemetery, the Jiménez family treats the holiday as a sacred communion, inviting outsiders only to witness and participate respectfully.
    Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • The reporter politely persisted.
    Brian Brant, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Celebrini and Smith mostly smiled, answered the questions, and politely complied with the request in a video that had close to 400,000 views as of early Wednesday.
    Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Princess Bride is superbly planned and deferentially orchestrated — its theme fits its telling.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • At the same time, the plan prudently addresses retention of Tesla’s visionary leader through vesting periods of up to 10 years after the grant date.
    Shane Goodwin, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Could Lightfighter – and the imitators likely to follow – even raise interest in track riding, in a world where modern sportbike performance long ago outpaced what could be exploited prudently on public roads?
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Even so, more than 70% of teens have used AI companions and half use them regularly, according to a recent study from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that studies and advocates for using screens and digital media sensibly.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The inexperienced head coach has sensibly made only minor tweaks since taking over, sticking with the compact, direct football that has served Brentford so well.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Compassionately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compassionately. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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