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commiseration

[kuh-miz-uh-rey-shuhn] / kəˌmɪz əˈreɪ ʃən /


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Talking about it with other people strikes up genuine conversation and commiseration.

From Salon • May 22, 2025

With their local groups, people mostly posted helpful advice or commiseration.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025

Instead, they were mostly gestures of commiseration after the tech giant began cutting 18,000 jobs that January morning.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2023

Even among more put-together attendees, private Slack channels were reportedly awash in commiseration.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2023

He expected his story to dovetail into milkwarm commiseration, but before Nel could excrete it, Sula said she didn’t know about that—it looked like a pretty good life to her.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison




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