sympathies

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Corinna said she knew her father had been wounded fighting in France and Russia with the German army, but she said he had never mentioned having Nazi sympathies.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

"My deepest sympathies go out to his family, and to the wider Congolese community," he said.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Auden ultimately felt that his poem was propaganda, and his sympathies came to lie rather with the common person trampled under the march of History.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Ben Maguire, Liberal Democrat MP for North Cornwall, expressed his sympathies to employees, who he said would be "really anxious and uncertain".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

But the dead and the living were different, he knew that, even if his sympathies were with the dead.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman