sympathizers

plural of sympathizer

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of sympathizers 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 Meanwhile, a British spy keeping tabs on Nazi sympathizers in California uncovers an espionage plot. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025 Perceptions of the event ranged from a soul-restoring display of public compassion to a misguided attempt to wade into a complex debate with a cast of Hamas sympathizers. Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025 All this leads to the persistence of small pockets of jihadist sympathizers in the West, whether lone wolves or small clusters, who consume (and produce) ISIS propaganda and at times activate themselves to carry out attacks. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sympathizers
Noun
  • How are Kirk’s supporters responding?
    Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Back in 2001, a group of Enfield FC supporters realised which way the wind was blowing — and how far away their team was going — and formed a breakaway club.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • South Korea and the US have been staunch allies since the end of the Korean War in 1953 and have stepped up cooperation in recent years, drawing closer in a joint effort to combat Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Foreign powers such as Russia and China, which challenge America and its allies from Europe to the Middle East to Taiwan and the South China Sea, have long been accused of exploiting such divisions through disinformation campaigns that inflame tensions and weaken confidence in American governance.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025

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