support group

NOUN

group providing support to members

Synonyms

WEAK

12-step group AA Alcoholics Anonymous Weight Watchers encounter group family friends morale boosters safety net self-help group support system therapy

Example Sentences

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After a fruitless search for a support group, Aled put a message on Facebook in February 2024 to see if any other dads wanted to chat.

From BBC

One of the people Aled spoke to when he was setting up his How's Dad? support group was Mark Williams from Bridgend.

From BBC

No, that would probably be the Elf on the Shelf support group or the “Love is Blind” reunion.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr Dickmann says it was only an "unbelievable support group" of younger forum members that helped him get through the ordeal.

From BBC

What starts as a support group becomes something more dangerous when the queens turn their attention to solving an actual crime: the murder in France of an English nurse named May Daniels.

From The Wall Street Journal