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Recent Examples of kindness Each now cites the kindness of friends in hard times for helping them persevere. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2025 In such cases, kindness becomes a form of appeasement. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025 In a larger sense, kindness contributes to one’s sense of community and belonging, and donating to others has proven to reduce blood pressure and improve heart health, according to studies. Monica Haider, CNN Money, 6 June 2025 By Carol McCloud, Illustrated by David Messing Summary: This book explains clearly and simply how everyone has an invisible bucket that can be filled through small acts of kindness or emptied by acts of thoughtlessness or cruelty. Esther K. Choy, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for kindness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindness
Noun
  • This is one of the most important services of their lives.
    Buddha Lo, People.com, 13 June 2025
  • Include recommendations for relevant products and services.
    Clint Boulton, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Ironically, this was the one episode where viewers were beginning to feel some sympathy for Ralphie, as his son got critically injured while roleplaying Lord of the Rings.
    Skyler Trepel, People.com, 10 June 2025
  • Communism was never discussed at meetings, but secret sympathies were difficult to sniff out.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Each of the three leads has moments of raw tenderness, fragility, even fear that add depth to the drama.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
  • Symptoms may include tenderness, redness, swelling, or bruising.
    Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • After the music came a promo video of remarkable subtlety and grace.
    Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 15 June 2025
  • Like a lot of Hollywood job specialties, the work of the stunt person is a mix of art and science, balletic grace and precision engineering (the other key element, guts, is a necessary but not sufficient qualification).
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • The lessons of compassion and resilience in the book will guide her path forward.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 18 June 2025
  • The following are steps that managers and supervisors can take to promote compassion, create psychological safety, and show solidarity during these challenging times.
    Dr. Angélica S. Gutiérrez, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Appreciate Wilson’s technical brilliance but also the emotional generosity of his choral arrangements in which falsetto yearning is granted bass underpinning.
    Armond White, National Review, 18 June 2025
  • That is, generosity declined as social distance increased.
    Tobias Kalenscher, Scientific American, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Grapes are the primary ingredient in winemaking and the choice of yeast can be equally important, but until somewhat recently in wine’s 8,000-year history winemakers were completely at the mercy of the elements including the type of yeast that was already on their grapes and in their winery.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 17 June 2025
  • The generators could be there by the height of hurricane season, but since much of the equipment is manufactured overseas, the city is at the mercy of the supply chain.
    Colleen Wright, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • Roth went right for Rubin’s heart, invoking the Paul Skenes Topps MLB Debut Patch autographed one-of-one card that famously sold for $1.11 million to Dick’s Sporting Goods in March.
    Larry Holder, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • Rather than solely leaning on designing for moneyed families and those with means to drop thousands on new pieces each season, the designer opts to create from his heart.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 22 June 2025

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“Kindness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindness. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.

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