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- verb Present participle of
commiserate .
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Examples
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"commiserating," as Leib says, over a beer or two at the Rainbo Club.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Within the Etruscan town walls, elderly Italian men with watchful eyes can be seen commiserating in doorways, while Italian women tend to patio gardens, and hang laundry from small windows down hidden lanes.
Susan Fogwell: Hidden Italy's Pitigliano Remains off the Tourist Grid Susan Fogwell 2010
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Two years later she wrote to Philippa Strachey who had masterminded her 1928 celebration dinner commiserating about the bombing of the Women's Service Building on Marsham Street.
A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011
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Women commiserating have been made to seem dangerous and crazy to the parties who would stand to lose by it.
G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is? G. Roger Denson 2011
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She had felt detached from all the open grieving and eulogizing and commiserating as though she had been watching events unfold from the director's chair behind the camera.
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Part commiserating, part lobbying and part strategizing, the gathering this weekend is an opportunity for governors of both parties to present a united front to the president and Congress.
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I called up my wise old editor in London and, after commiserating, he said, with due gentleness, I think this might be the best thing that could happen to you.
The Good Luck of Notes Turned to Ash Pico Iyer 2011
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Within the Etruscan town walls, elderly Italian men with watchful eyes can be seen commiserating in doorways, while Italian women tend to patio gardens, and hang laundry from small windows down hidden lanes.
Susan Fogwell: Hidden Italy's Pitigliano Remains off the Tourist Grid Susan Fogwell 2010
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Part commiserating, part lobbying and part strategizing, the gathering this weekend is an opportunity for governors of both parties to present a united front to the president and Congress.
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Within the Etruscan town walls, elderly Italian men with watchful eyes can be seen commiserating in doorways, while Italian women tend to patio gardens, and hang laundry from small windows down hidden lanes.
Susan Fogwell: Hidden Italy's Pitigliano Remains off the Tourist Grid Susan Fogwell 2010
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