as in kindness
the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune
listening to your flippant comments about the homeless, I wonder if you have any ruth
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Recent Examples of ruth
Her sensitive and sublime renderings of such states in her fiction and poetry exemplify this ruth.
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Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruth
Noun
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Choose quiet tonight, and refill the well with kindness gently.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
14 June 2026
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Maria hopes people will practice kindness, compassion, and empathy instead of hate.—
Ted Scouten,
CBS News,
13 June 2026
Noun
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Colorado community newspaper El Diario de la Gente, which was published in Boulder, carried a report in early 1976 that told its readers about budding sympathies between the striking Teamsters and the heavily Mexican American United Farm Workers movement.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
12 June 2026
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Laguna Beach Mayor Mark Orgill issued a statement expressing sympathy for the girl’s family when the search was first called off.—
Jazmin Alvarado,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
Noun
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With compassion and urgency, the film captures a New Orleans community’s determination to preserve its identity in the face of a disappearing homeland.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 June 2026
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Your intuition notices tiny shifts, so praise progress out loud and adjust the plan with compassion each day.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
16 June 2026
Noun
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After the road trip, Washington, then 73, stepped aside from his managerial duties indefinitely before undergoing quadruple bypass heart surgery.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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The findings, the latest in a growing body of research about the vaccine’s benefits for heart health, suggest such benefits observed in earlier studies have persisted for years.—
Daniel Wu,
Washington Post,
16 June 2026
Noun
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That’s a pity, because with further refinement, Girl, Interrupted could go deeper.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
5 June 2026
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At least Duncan’s daughter and fellow cadet, Teela (Eire Farrell), takes pity on the hopeless tyke.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
4 June 2026
Noun
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If these leaders truly believe faith and work build America, then the community that built this industry deserves the same justice and mercy being delivered to Arkansas.—
John E. Jackson Sr,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
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What struck me about the UFC fights was the anticipation of blood, the waiting for the final moment, when one man would be at the complete mercy of another, and only the referee’s call would stand between the loser and death.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2026
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“Ruth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruth. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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