sympathize
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You can’t help but sympathize with her desire to skip the coming crisis in her industry.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
“We can say this—that killing innocent people is wrong and we sympathize with them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Still, the movie seems to sympathize with many Americans’ misplaced faith in the remoteness of nuclear war.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
"It's quite easy to make a version of that story where he's a sort of toxic incel male conspiracy theorist nut who you don't really sympathize with," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
I could sympathize with their arguments, but they were being unrealistic.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
As his body fails him, he sympathizes more deeply with the dying planet, going so far as to declare to his bewildered loved ones that he is the Earth itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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
Of her three children, Celia sympathizes most with her son.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
He not only sympathized with our loss but also shared our heartbreak as he described his own very personal connection to the Palisades fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
Jeremias, a nurse, said she sympathized with Mangione’s feeling of hopelessness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 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
Half of Dusty sympathized with one boy, half of him with the other, in this quarrel.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
While sympathizing with the need for more affordable housing, Maupin said in a video posted on Facebook that Align’s proposal is “a bit of a monstrosity, from the pictures I’ve seen.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
While fully sympathizing with her grief, many women have called Erika Kirk out for not being fully transparent in her self-portrait.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2025
Playing both roles has been therapeutic; it’s been an opportunity to voice my frustrations as a son while also sympathizing with the father character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
Back in the courthouse, almost three years after Ozy’s collapse, I found myself sympathizing with Watson, against my better judgment.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
The wives were sympathizing with each other in slightly raised voices.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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