sympathizers

plural of sympathizer

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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. 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
  • Both supporters and opponents see these early moves as test cases that are laying the groundwork for moving more of the agency's work to other parts of the government.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Given Swift's pop culture influence and massive fanbase, some football players, like JJ Watt, were supporters long before Swift debuted her first tunnel fit.
    Lex Goldstein, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The second rule is that yesterday's allies are tomorrow's enemies, and vice versa.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is moving to rewrite decades of federal rules, a sweeping deregulation drive that his allies call overdue modernization and safety advocates warn could cut too deep.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Sympathizers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sympathizers. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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