empathizers

noun

plural of empathizer
as in sympathizers

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  1. sympathizers
  2. allies
  3. supporters
  4. fellow travelers
  5. abettors
Noun
  • Instead, as would later happen in Kansas and Nebraska, slaveowners and Southern sympathizers on the one hand and abolitionists and Free-Soilers on the other all flocked to California to try to tip the political scales in their favor.
    — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • But Thomas and Erika are no fools, coolly telling off smiling Hitler sympathizers during a tony reception.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of sympathizers
Noun
  • Call it a reverse Pepé Le Pew, flattening Anglo-American icons to give some space not only to de Gaulle but to his internal antagonists and allies and to the French people themselves.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Russia, however, accuses America's European NATO allies of being a party to the war Putin launched more than a decade ago, and ramped up significantly with the ongoing full-scale invasion in February 2022.
    — Mariia Kashchenko, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of allies
Noun
  • Transgender-rights supporters marched through downtown Seattle Thursday after Washington voters approved a measure barring biological males from girls’ K–12 interscholastic sports, setting up a potential court battle over the new restrictions.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026
  • That moment encapsulated the night between Brooks and his supporters.
    — Rashad Alexander November 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of supporters
Noun
  • As Ivan and Nina walk, talk, do tequila shots and observe their fellow travelers, those travelers are also observing them.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Unfailingly, the advice from both locals and fellow travelers insisted on reservations at chef Frank Stitt and his wife Pardis's restaurants, foundational not just in the course of Birmingham's food history but the country's.
    — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of fellow travelers
Noun
  • However, a change in California law eliminated criminal liability for murder and attempted murder for people convicted as aiders and abettors under the natural and probable consequences doctrine, prosecutors said.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are all aiders and abetters of the sitting president.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
Definition of abettors
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