commiserate
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When Bill Ackman vented over $2 million, fellow billionaires rushed to commiserate.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 10, 2026
The feature bothers him so much that he brought it up to his family around Thanksgiving last year, expecting to commiserate with his mother, brother, sister—and his brother-in-law, me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Brandt, a former elected member of East Hampshire District Council, claimed he wanted to commiserate with her over her failed leadership bid.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
While a dejected England leave for home well beaten and under mounting pressure, Smith told TNT Sports he planned to have "a jar" with counterpart Stokes and commiserate.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
Mary was planning on doing what she always did to celebrate, commiserate, blow off steam, or just kill boredom.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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Even if your husband commiserates with you, I wouldn’t assume that he is as bothered by his brother’s actions as you are.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
He teases people about their sneakers and commiserates with people about life on skid row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
Biden was only 10 when his father, in search of a steady job, moved the family to Delaware, a wrenching decision that Biden often cites as he commiserates with the choices facing middle-class workers.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2020
She commiserates with them on painful anniversaries - the day their children were taken away by social services, or the last time they spoke to their parents.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2017
When I relate this to Caroline on the phone, she commiserates, “Ugh, a no-brainer. ”
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Carmen Schober, the profile’s author, ignored the way members of Schmidt’s online forum, Skinni Société, commiserated about their hair loss and inability to stand without getting dizzy.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
And they commiserated about life in space, and how ISS missions -- all three of the American Artemis astronauts had previously served on the ISS -- had prepared them for their historic lunar voyage.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Lu and her sister recently commiserated about the drama.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu described the incident as unfortunate and commiserated with families of the deceased victims.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
“Ah rather be shot with tacks than tuh hear dat ’bout mah- self,” Lige Moss commiserated.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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His post was flooded with comments, including people commiserating and asking him to advocate on the issue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Oh, Hi!” writer-director Sophie Brooks and Gordon are longtime friends who found themselves both back in their parents’ houses during the early stages of the pandemic and commiserating on relationship troubles and uncommunicative exes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
Gene Folkes had just been jettisoned as a contestant on “The Apprentice” and was commiserating with a crew member at a bar inside the lobby of Trump Tower.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
I talk to some people who—we do money commiserating and they’re like, “But you have a house.”
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2024
Ron and Hermione both gave Harry half-exasperated, half- commiserating looks.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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