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
  • Talk through what’s bothering you to gain a compassionate perspective.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement Del Toro, on the other hand, portrays the Creature as a far more empathetic and compassionate figure.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Also, what a great thing to get to be a sweet, sympathetic character at the end who also can’t forgive himself.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This monster is the precursor to slasher villains like Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, who lumber along on their killing sprees, though this blueprint is far more sympathetic.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • After almost getting run over by two cars in heavy rain, a tiny black kitten was saved by a kind stranger who stopped to help him and ended up taking him home.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • During high school, Morgan dates Chris (Scott Eastwood), who is magnetic but inconsiderate, and her sister dates Chris’s best friend, Jonah (Dave Franco), who is shy and kind.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • He was thrown from the helicopter into a rainforest, became amnesiac, and was nursed back to health by some kindly locals?
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
  • How can a kindly, God-fearing, and ascetic novice monk compete against that?
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • As such, a solution is at hand – pending Hamas’ compliance to disarm immediately – truly neutral humanitarian operations beg for new measures and modalities.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The return of Israeli hostages’ bodies from Gaza has become a focal point in ongoing ceasefire negotiations, symbolizing the humanitarian stakes of the conflict and its emotional toll in both Israel and Gaza.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 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
  • Mills should be remembered for her kindness as well as her final altruistic act, her sister said.
    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That’s our girl, never doing anything truly altruistic.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 Oct. 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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