samaritan

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Recent Examples of samaritan This law offers good samaritan protection for witnesses of university hazing who call 911 or attempt to give medical aid. Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for samaritan
Adjective
  • Skills, including creativity, critical thinking, and learning to be compassionate, are all potential benefits of reading.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Together with a few colleagues-including her TV boss (Arvydas Dapšys) and a compassionate local dweller (Paulius Pinigis), Daiva starts a hunger strike in a small trailer facing the TV station.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Klan hit its highest membership in 1924 in part due to a sympathetic governor and legislature, according to IHS.
    Joe Mutascio, IndyStar, 17 Oct. 2025
  • From patriarch Randolph onward, the Murdaughs are not a sympathetic group.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Jennifer Lawrence has the kind spirit of an expert hostess — just not the pantry.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The police were kind, the majority of them were polite, as individuals.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s no Nurse Ratched here, however, but there is the kindly Steve, who watches out for all of them, especially Shy, who is hiding a secret from the others.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • To that end, BALLS imagines a reality where the kindly Professor NPC who offers you a choice of three starter monsters is actually the one who created both the technology and normalized culture of trapping living things in spherical prisons.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In the absence of independent monitoring on the ground, the ministry is the primary source for casualty data relied upon by humanitarian groups, journalists, and international bodies.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Recipients span a wide range of fields, including politics, public service, the arts, science, civil rights, journalism, and humanitarian work.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Family members said Wilks was good-hearted.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The clash sees Cliff Curtis’ spurned chieftain Keōua, now high on his own supply as the chosen of the volcano Gods, on the one side; then, Kaina Makua’s reluctant, good-hearted king Kamehameha, and Jason Momoa’s vengeful chief of war Ka’iana on the other.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That’s our girl, never doing anything truly altruistic.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The actress, model, and singer portrayed the altruistic dreamer Lani McKenzie on season 8 of the action series, which centered on the exploits of a group of Los Angeles County lifeguards.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Rowling wasn't so magnanimous when addressing the ideological split between her and Watson.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • See that magnanimous future awaiting you?
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Samaritan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/samaritan. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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