sympathizer

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Recent Examples of sympathizer As Koestler observes, crying is a signal not just of surrender but of neediness, designed to elicit succor and comfort from sympathizers. Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025 McCarthy and his cronies engineered a hysteria over left-wing ideologies and their sympathizers, encouraging tactics like loyalty oaths and provoking paranoia over a suggestion that communist spies were omnipresent in America. Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025 Advertisement Tehran is not without sympathizers and clients. Ian Bremmer, Time, 14 Sep. 2025 Jeffrey Breinholt, an architect of the material support statutes who spent three decades as a federal terrorism prosecutor, defends the laws as crucial to closing loopholes that were exploited by foreign militant groups and their domestic sympathizers. Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025 What emerges from her lifelong attempts at maintaining personal and public cohesion makes for grimly fascinating viewing, reflected in her public defamations in the media and the chilling private messages of support from her sympathizers. Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025 Whether a genuine Catholic sympathizer or, from the outset, a double agent, he was tortured and returned to England. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 Quantrill, like other prominent Confederates such as the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was mythologized by Confederate sympathizers. Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025 Her husband, Yoon, declared martial law in December, ostensibly as part of a nationwide campaign to root out North Korean sympathizers and anti-South Korean actors within the government. Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sympathizer
supporter
Noun
  • Back in the 1920s, even the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin called on his British supporters to affiliate with the Labour Party instead of fighting it.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
  • No victims speak in court While the court heard several pleas from Combs’ supporters Friday, the victims who testified at trial were noticeably absent from the hearing.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025

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