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feel for

VERB
bleed
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VERB
commiserate
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Antonyms
WEAK
be indifferent turn away










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“We are actors because we feel for them, but we have to be at their speed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

You develop a feel for probability that you can’t get from doing equations.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

Even critics conceded that Banerjee possessed an instinctive feel for the emotional grammar of her electorate.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

To get a feel for all the potential volatility, let’s first look at the Fed.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Even people who have less restrictive filters and a good feel for numbers will note an increasingly large number of coincidences, due in large measure to the number and complexity of man-made conventions.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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