sympathize
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“I understand and sympathize with what the actors’ union was responding to,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Plenty of people here sympathize with the mystery vigilante.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
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
Now I can really sympathize with how the slave Isaura felt after she was caught by the evil Leoncio.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
The fashion designer and bridal boutique owner sympathizes with retailers grappling with the penny problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 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
The 34-year-old Mira Costa alumna who also starred for Stanford’s indoor team sympathizes with Ross’ quick comeback.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024
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
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
I’ve long sympathized with the argument that a large U.S. commitment to the European theater is an anachronism in our security posture, a throwback to 20th-century geopolitics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Art is a weapon for López Mari and Calle 13, who sympathized with the Palestinian struggle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 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
Hitchcock beguiles us into sympathizing with the psychopathic Bruno.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Another supervisor came out and tried to defuse the situation, half lecturing, half sympathizing.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 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
"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
This era became known as the Red Scare, and many ordinary citizens were accused of sympathizing with the Communists.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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