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- verb North America Simple past tense and past participle of
sympathize .
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Examples
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It was exceptionally repulsive in the first place, but the violent blow on the nose had caused that organ to assume double its original proportion, and there was a puffy, bulbous look about the whole countenance which showed how strongly it "sympathized" with the injured part.
Camp-fire and Wigwam Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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The recent terrorist attacks in Norway by a deranged man who harbored anti-Muslim sentiments and sympathized with far right wing anti-immigrant political ideologies has brought this crisis once again to the surface.
Daniel Tutt: What Would Nietzsche Say About Europe's Islam Crisis? Daniel Tutt 2011
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Those who followed or sympathized with bin Laden expressed shock and dismay, or vowed revenge.
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Those who followed or sympathized with bin Laden expressed shock and dismay, or vowed revenge.
Bin Laden's death stirs strong emotions around the world 2011
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The recent terrorist attacks in Norway by a deranged man who harbored anti-Muslim sentiments and sympathized with far right wing anti-immigrant political ideologies has brought this crisis once again to the surface.
Daniel Tutt: What Would Nietzsche Say About Europe's Islam Crisis? Daniel Tutt 2011
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He was Lebanon's most prominent politician in the years after Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war – a Sunni who was a hero to his own community and backed by many Christians who sympathized with his efforts in the last few months of his life to reduce Syrian influence in the country.
Hezbollah Resigns: Lebanese Government Collapses As Political Party Pulls Out Cara Parks 2011
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Sternbane was the only member of the public who spoke on the proposal, but supervisors sympathized with nonsmokers, who sometimes have to share the confined spaces with people who pass the time by smoking.
Fairfax County bans smoking in bus shelters Kafia A. Hosh 2010
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The recent terrorist attacks in Norway by a deranged man who harbored anti-Muslim sentiments and sympathized with far right wing anti-immigrant political ideologies has brought this crisis once again to the surface.
Daniel Tutt: What Would Nietzsche Say About Europe's Islam Crisis? Daniel Tutt 2011
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Englishmen and Americans raised on the classics sympathized with those they took to be descendants of Pericles.
The Disloyal Opposition William Anthony Hay 2011
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The recent terrorist attacks in Norway by a deranged man who harbored anti-Muslim sentiments and sympathized with far right wing anti-immigrant political ideologies has brought this crisis once again to the surface.
Daniel Tutt: What Would Nietzsche Say About Europe's Islam Crisis? Daniel Tutt 2011
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