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Huneven said that last year, as the smoke cleared, she and Zack were commiserating one day about what had been lost.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Women were commiserating in collective despair over the continual brushoff from their doctors only to miscarry, abort, or pay multiple ER bills.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2019

In Iten, Jonah Kiplagat, a 32-year-old motorcyclist who retired from road running due to injury, said the residents of the hamlet on the edge of the picturesque Kerio Valley were commiserating with Kiprop.

From Reuters • May 4, 2018

We were commiserating because I’ve been going through a great deletion myself.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2018

On that occasion you were speaking about me to one of your friends; you were commiserating my fate, left as I was a poor orphan in the world.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno