sympathize

You can’t help but sympathize with her desire to skip the coming crisis in her industry.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

"I wanted the audience to be able to sympathize with him at times, and be terrified of him at times," Antosca told AFP on the Los Angeles red carpet.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Many Mexicans tend to sympathize with Cuba because of historic concerns about U.S. expansionism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Still, the movie seems to sympathize with many Americans’ misplaced faith in the remoteness of nuclear war.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026

Her domestic struggles made Stanton sympathize with the concerns facing other women of her time.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

He repeats the tall tales, and he sympathizes with their struggles with wanderlust and the challenge of finding civilian clothes that fit and are affordable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

While he sympathizes with the occasional need to chill at home, he also notes it's unsettling that it's a wildly popular discourse.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

While he sympathizes with the financial challenges restaurants are facing, he said the charge “really kind of stung.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

Bryant sympathizes with the people who call in orders on Valentine’s Day.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

Her eyes tighten, enough for me to know that some part of her sympathizes with me, even if she’ll never admit it.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Yet many countries in Africa and beyond have long sympathized with the moral and legal foundations of Somaliland’s case and have been waiting for a first mover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

Johnson sympathized with the department’s lack of manpower but said, in a perfect world, wildlife officials would be able to flush the bear out and relocate it somewhere safer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

In 2023, according to New York Times polling, 34 percent of Democrats sympathized with Israel and 31 percent with Palestinians.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2025

Many people sympathized with the workers and even called for Costco to start revoking memberships.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2024

A few years back she might have sympathized with the nursing assistants.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

It’s a thing the court can do to say, We get to decide whom we’re sympathizing with and how we’re presenting all these things.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

Hitchcock beguiles us into sympathizing with the psychopathic Bruno.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

"Something about Bowen being the one to voice this joke despite his interview with Chappell sympathizing with her concerns less than a month ago makes me sad," one person wrote in a post to X.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

Protesters gather outside the facility regularly, and in May, Casper Mayor Bruce Knell apologized for a Facebook post about the clinic some interpreted as sympathizing with the fire attack.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

“You can’t sympathize with the staff too much,” he told me, “or you risk not sympathizing with the patients.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French