as in to empathize
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Investigators have said Mangione was a critic of the health-care industry, a view some Americans sympathized with online in the days after Thompson’s death.
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Annika Kim Constantino,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
In the comments, fellow Redditors sympathized with both the wife and husband's points of view.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
Fellow moms sympathized with the mom-to-be of three.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
The killer’s knife, the first-person perspective, and the unnerving way in which audiences sympathize with Norman Bates all played a major role in the shaping genre, and its DNA is all over eventual slasher staples like Halloween and Scream.
—Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Annika Kim Constantino,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
In the comments, fellow Redditors sympathized with both the wife and husband's points of view.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
Fellow moms sympathized with the mom-to-be of three.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
The killer’s knife, the first-person perspective, and the unnerving way in which audiences sympathize with Norman Bates all played a major role in the shaping genre, and its DNA is all over eventual slasher staples like Halloween and Scream.
—Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Sympathize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sympathize. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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