simpatico

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So actually, Dana, instead of the "strong regulator" you appeared to be looking for, it looked as if you and your neocon-simpatico chums wanted to instead create the illusion of activity and nothing more (and by the way, as noted here, the House passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act a month ago).

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  • Steve and me were what you'd call muy simpatico, even though he was a senior classman in high school to my junior. —  EQMM, July 2005
  • I'm totally simpatico (simpatica?) with the old bag that watches spanish TV. —  The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
  • It would have been easy to be caddy and blame the other organization, but instead we simply acknowledged that the two cultures were not simpatico, and that we still hold respect for each other. —  Conversation Agent
  • "It does, in a way, create this kind of simpatico relationship between Bianca and her mother," Elmore said of the mother-daughter relationship. —  JuneauEmpire.com
  • Sometimes this pairing is super-simpatico and the two of us spend our planning sessions eating Chex Mix and giggling about the stupid girl who accidentally emailed a super-religious Senior Vice-President a traffic-speed-cam picture of a guy getting a handjob at 85mph from his girlfriend. —  TVgasm Recaps
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  1. Italian simpatico (from simpatia, sympathy) or Spanish simpático (from simpatía, sympathy), both from Latin sympathīa; see sympathy.
 

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