side with

1. Support or favor, as in The Armenians traditionally side with the Greeks against the Turks. This idiom was first recorded in 1600. For the antonym, see side against.

Example Sentences

Now, as Greenblatt told him no judge in any court of law would side with his decision to side-pocket what was clearly a tradable security, whatever feelings Mike Burry had for him vanished.

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That could be as early as this week as the result of a decision by eight members of the Senate Democratic caucus to side with Republicans to advance a bill to end the government shutdown.

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Senators on Capitol Hill passed the compromise budget measure on Monday night after a group of Democrats broke with their party to side with Republicans on a bill to fund departments through January.

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The Supreme Court is generally hostile to approving damages actions against individual government officials but at the same time the right-leaning court has tended to side with the plaintiffs in religious liberty cases.

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Vingegaard was side by side with Slovenia's Primoz Roglic before making his final attack on the last lap of the circuit.

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