as in to empathize
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Reddit users sympathized with the pregnant woman in the comments section.
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Escher Walcott, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Are we meant to sympathize with this creature as people scream in terror and call it a monster and attack it and scream for it to be shot?
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
In the comments, many people sympathized with the woman's stance that the husband's gift idea doesn't actually seem like much of a gift.
—Erin Clack, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
Then, halfway through 2021, around the same time that the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol was formed, a narrative that sympathized with the January 6th rioters started making its way from the far-right fringes into right-wing media.
—Tess Owen, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2025
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Escher Walcott, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Are we meant to sympathize with this creature as people scream in terror and call it a monster and attack it and scream for it to be shot?
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
In the comments, many people sympathized with the woman's stance that the husband's gift idea doesn't actually seem like much of a gift.
—Erin Clack, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
Then, halfway through 2021, around the same time that the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol was formed, a narrative that sympathized with the January 6th rioters started making its way from the far-right fringes into right-wing media.
—Tess Owen, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2025
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“Sympathize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sympathize. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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