resonate
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verb (English)
1. (figurative) To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.Examples: "His words resonated with the crowd."; "Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors."; "“The control of women and babies has been a feature of every repressive regime on the planet,” wrote Margaret Atwood earlier this year, on why her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale is resonating so forcefully in the age of Trump."figuratively
2. (figurative) To agree or sympathise, not necessarily perfectly, usually with an emotion, an attitude, or an intellectual position.Examples: "1976 Professor Rosenblith: U.S. DEPARTMENT of Health, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE DHEW Publication No. (NIH) 76-1138 Proceedings of Conferences I think the tone of concern, both within the outer and the inner circle here,. . . is obviously something that I resonate with. We're dealing with problems in decision-making and uncertainty..."; "1989 J. Giles Milhaven: Good Anger. →ISBN Their readers certainly gain if they are ready to understand and feel with them in their poetry. When I read their text, I gain. I resonate with their wrath. I taste some of their sore satisfaction. I join respectfully the murderous fury they feel and express at brutal abuse... On the face of it, it is damn' peculiar. We approve and resonate with this individual's passion to get revenge. We would disapprove and be horrified by their actual getting it."; "1995 Handbook of spirituality for ministers: ed. Robert J. Wicks →ISBN I am frequently asked why the topic has assumed such major importance in Christian spirituality ... I resonate with the question. In my own Jesuit formation-largely before the council—I received no introduction to discernment. This is doubly strange since our founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, is the source of most current discussions with the "Rules of the Discernment of Spirits" found in his book... I often look to his life to find meaning for my own. I see how he had to have his solitude time and how he looked with love upon people in his work world... I resonate with the stories which tell of his human side: too weary to go into the village with the disciples to buy food, attempting to get away by boat from the crowds who continually surrounded him with their needs..."figuratively
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