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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of commiserate.

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Examples

  • Schieffer concluded by wondering if, like Thomas Jefferson, Obama is finding the presidency to be a "splendid misery" and quoting Jefferson, who once said "the presidency had brought him nothing but increasing drudgery and a daily loss of friends," commiserated: "Have you lost any friends yet?"

    MRC Latest Headlines 2009

  • Schieffer concluded by wondering if, like Thomas Jefferson, Obama is finding the presidency to be a "splendid misery" and quoting Jefferson, who once said "the presidency had brought him nothing but increasing drudgery and a daily loss of friends," commiserated: "Have you lost any friends yet?"

    MRC Latest Headlines 2009

  • Budget Committee Chair Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Ranking Republican Judd Gregg (R-NH) commiserated that they were almost alone among their colleagues in their concern for the long-run credit worthiness of the United States.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strong Dollar 2009

  • Biden, who has had two craniotomies to remove aneurysms, said he commiserated with Giffords about the challenges of recovery.

    Rep. Giffords casts debt-limit vote on House floor 2011

  • Doug Robertson and I commiserated about it once, only he took the idea and Dirty Snowflake Apparel was born.

    Hooping.org | Blog | Hooping Clothes For Guys: Dirty Snowflake 2009

  • They commiserated with representatives of big business, like American Airlines.

    Entrepreneurs smell opportunity 2009

  • Biden, who has had two craniotomies to remove aneurysms, said he commiserated with Giffords about the challenges of recovery.

    Rep. Giffords casts debt-limit vote on House floor 2011

  • It was epitomized in the moment where Romney was campaigning last year and spoke to a Florida unemployed man and commiserated that he, too, was also unemployed.

    John Wellington Ennis: Why Mitt Romney Won't Get the Job John Wellington Ennis 2012

  • I commiserated Patrick Swayze's death back in September (How I'll Always Remember Patrick Swayze) and saw pictures of his final year or two and was awestruck at how his physique had deteriorated.

    How I'll Always Remember Dennis Hopper 2010

  • It was epitomized in the moment where Romney was campaigning last year and spoke to a Florida unemployed man and commiserated that he, too, was also unemployed.

    John Wellington Ennis: Why Mitt Romney Won't Get the Job John Wellington Ennis 2012

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