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someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support
doesn't have many sympathizers since everyone knows he brought his troubles on himself
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Recent Examples of sympathizers
As Koestler observes, crying is a signal not just of surrender but of neediness, designed to elicit succor and comfort from sympathizers.
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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
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
According to private analysts who track far-right extremist activities, the Active Club network has a core membership of 400 to 1,200 white men globally, plus sympathizers, online supporters and passive members.
—Art Jipson, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
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
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
According to private analysts who track far-right extremist activities, the Active Club network has a core membership of 400 to 1,200 white men globally, plus sympathizers, online supporters and passive members.
—Art Jipson, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sympathizers
Noun
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Trump’s aggressive second-term agenda has thrilled his supporters, but Democrats are hoping many voters see it as overreach.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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Up in a second-deck corner of the GEODIS Park, in Section 233, a group of about 60 spirited Inter Miami La Familia supporters chanted and jumped up and down as Messi and his teammates took the field.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Trans performers and allies have decried the casting of cis men in trans roles, in particular.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
31 Oct. 2025
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Over the course of 30 years, she’s built an army of allies to take on her country’s shameful secret.—
Natalia Paradies,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Sympathizers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sympathizers. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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