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Recent Examples of sympathetically
The Audacity is better when dealing more sympathetically with teenagers like Tess, who’s grown tired of rebellion as the answer to her discontent.
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
17 May 2026
But the scenes she’s devised for these sympathetically difficult oddballs go nowhere.
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
The boys’ mother Katherine (Nia Long) gazes sympathetically from the sidelines but doesn’t dare speak up.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
21 Apr. 2026
Two of the emails to potential witnesses were the subjects of email strings associated with bloggers who have written extensively and sympathetically about Boyne.
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Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
16 Feb. 2026
But Thompson ends her story with Cabey and his mother, while Williams closes with an interview with Goetz, who is allowed to emerge, if not exactly sympathetically, then at least as a three-dimensional figure.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
When Mehta appeared on camera bouncing her newborn in her lap, that professor started laughing sympathetically.
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Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2025
The musicians standing with him smile sympathetically.
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Jem Aswad,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
Safdie sympathetically, vividly recounts the pressure to win, the violence in the ring, the addiction that saw Kerr OD twice.
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Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
29 Sep. 2025
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
17 May 2026
But the scenes she’s devised for these sympathetically difficult oddballs go nowhere.
—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
The boys’ mother Katherine (Nia Long) gazes sympathetically from the sidelines but doesn’t dare speak up.
—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
21 Apr. 2026
Two of the emails to potential witnesses were the subjects of email strings associated with bloggers who have written extensively and sympathetically about Boyne.
—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
16 Feb. 2026
But Thompson ends her story with Cabey and his mother, while Williams closes with an interview with Goetz, who is allowed to emerge, if not exactly sympathetically, then at least as a three-dimensional figure.
—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
When Mehta appeared on camera bouncing her newborn in her lap, that professor started laughing sympathetically.
—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2025
The musicians standing with him smile sympathetically.
—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
Safdie sympathetically, vividly recounts the pressure to win, the violence in the ring, the addiction that saw Kerr OD twice.
—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sympathetically
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We are taxed, compassionately pass bills, paid for with Bonds, attend black tie dinners, and hear about 10-year plans after 10-year plans to solve the problem Sacramento is creating.
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In this story the problem is treated intimately and compassionately by a woman who knows all about it.
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That sense of modernity has sometimes felt absent from the movies’ sweetly old-fashioned world, which features pull-string cowboy dolls and a shiny spaceman action figure.
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With Sonja Tyspin’s cinematography imbuing an innocent, sensual curiosity, Kiyoko sweetly conveys the awkward thrill of fledgling emotions.
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According to Kim, the theme is not about respectfully preserving Korean aesthetics, but about dismantling, disrupting, and wearing them again.
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The ring of onlookers parts respectfully as the elderly couple approaches their granddaughter.
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Justin Hale has spent his career helping leaders break that silence—skillfully, humanely, and with lasting results.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission allows (and even encourages) the public to humanely kill them when possible, with no bag limits or seasons and no hunting licenses required.
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For much of the last two seasons, Washington’s defense has been out of sync, to put it politely.
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Almost nine years after their awkward handshake at the 2017 Bastille Day military parade, the two men politely shook hands and expressed their affinity for each other.
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Precedent thus gave the judge reason to deferentially review settlement terms.
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Scorsese shoots them beautifully and deferentially.
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To protect small businesses, the bill sensibly exempts employers with 25 or fewer employees.
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The Mobi Fold embraces its bendy nature and, sensibly, automatically turns on when opened up and turns off when it’s folded shut.
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“Sympathetically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sympathetically. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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