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Even immigration officials sympathize with the family. — Rick Montgomery, kansascity, "If Kansas vet's adopted daughter is deported, family will go with her to South Korea | The Kansas City Star," 30 Mar. 2018 While most of the 300-plus comments agreed that the bridesmaid was not in the wrong, a few sympathized with where the bride was coming from. — Allure, "This Bride Went Off on Her Bridesmaid for Getting a Pixie Haircut Before Her Wedding," 17 Apr. 2019 To see that commitment as no more than a grotesque mockery of what ought to be a joyful partnership is to assume that the women involved might have feelings, and to sympathize with those feelings. — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, "Despite What Tucker Carlson Thinks, Women Aren't Something to Possess," 19 Mar. 2019 Whitaker’s open sympathizing with Trump’s frequent complaints about the Mueller investigation resulted in an unusually close relationship between a president and a staffer of his level. — Murray Waas, Vox, "Exclusive: Trump loyalist Matthew Whitaker was counseling the White House on investigating Clinton," 9 Nov. 2018 There’s a moral value in sympathizing with the person consigned to this grim work. — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, "Spirit of the Strip Mall," 24 May 2018 Syriza grew out of Greece’s anticapitalist far left, parts of which sympathized with Marxist and anarchist urban guerrillas. — Nektaria Stamouli, WSJ, "Recent Explosions in Greece Spark Worries of Emerging Urban Violence," 27 Dec. 2018 After all, nobody sympathizes with a workforce that averages $4.4 million in salary – yet that salary has remained flat even as industry revenues approach $11 billion. — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, "MLB players survey: Sounding off on umps, shifts, steroids - and whether to strike back," 28 June 2018 Bogenschutz sympathizes for his client, who was on a good path after being set free from house arrest several months ago. — Heran Mamo, Billboard, "XXXTentacion's Lawyer Says He Encouraged Beefing Up Security Before Artist's Fatal Shooting," 25 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sympathize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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