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  • noun Plural form of sympathiser.

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Examples

  • The attack on the Tehran rally, which drew 200,000 participants, left twenty-three Mojahedin sympathisers seriously injured.

    Washington Post Shills for Terrorists « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • I have long argued that the former communist sympathisers from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s mutated into eco-warriors in the 1990s.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • We have received the most positive information that certain American sympathisers with the revolutionary movement in Cuba have loaded a steamer with munitions of war for the use of the insurgents; and these munitions are to be landed to-day at a spot known as Mulata Bay, a few miles to the westward of this port.

    The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection Harry Collingwood 1886

  • If Gothic romance is the camera obscura, the verse of Coleridge and his sympathisers is the auditory alternative that is the Aeolian harp.

    Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics 2005

  • They said a dispute broke out on Thursday between policemen and a group of prison inmates, identified as sympathisers of a secessionist movement and arrested for taking part in a protest in Daleh.

    AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE) 2010

  • They said a dispute broke out on Thursday between policemen and a group of prison inmates, identified as sympathisers of a secessionist movement and arrested for taking part in a protest in Daleh.

    AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE) 2010

  • They said a dispute broke out on Thursday between policemen and a group of prison inmates, identified as sympathisers of a secessionist movement and arrested for taking part in a protest in Daleh.

    AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE) 2010

  • Most of the rural population of Vietnam were Viet-Cong sympathisers which is the main reason the war was lost.

    Think Progress » National Review Editor: ‘People Would React Favorably’ To Escalating Troop Levels In Iraq 2006

  • She for whom "sympathisers" and "well-wishers" had collected their sixpenny-pieces that she and hers might be saved from starving.

    Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

  • Many "sympathisers" gave goods, food, etc., to help the cause

    The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

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