sympathizer
Example Sentences
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Your humble correspondent cannot claim to be a communist sympathizer, but shouldn’t we all spare a thought for anyone who has to sit through endless hours of Marxist speeches without so much as a cocktail?
It could say the deal was made under duress and is thus void, as some sympathizers have floated.
Those detained include protesters and their sympathizers—students, civil-rights activists, medical workers who treated protesters and family members of the victims—according to relatives of those arrested, residents and rights groups.
And they are cropping up even as the regime has carried out waves of arrests targeting protesters and their sympathizers, from relatives to medical workers to civil-rights activists.
Without weapons, the protesters will need sympathizers in the regime and the military to join their cause.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.