identify with
phrasal verb
identified with; identifying with; identifies with
1
: to think of (something) as being the same as (something else)
It is a mistake to identify being healthy with being thin.
2
: to think of (someone) as being very closely associated with (something)
She has always been identified with the civil rights movement.
These groups are identified with conservation.
3
: to think of oneself as having the same problems and feelings as someone
Many readers identify with the characters in her novels.
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Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust doesn’t do justice to West’s paranoia, yet its remoteness captures the liberal Hollywood apathy that no longer identifies with American domesticity and sees its own working class as existing merely to perpetuate ruling-class superiority.
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Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
But unaffiliated voters, those who do not identify with any party, remained the largest group at 693,459 voters.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Share [Findings] Assamese tribesmen were found to identify with elephants through a sense of mutual loss, poverty, and uncertainty.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
These are essentially the different combinations of proteins found in people either socially isolated or lonely, compared to the data gathered from people who don’t identify with those characteristics.
—Rich Haridy, New Atlas, 22 Jan. 2025
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Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
But unaffiliated voters, those who do not identify with any party, remained the largest group at 693,459 voters.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Share [Findings] Assamese tribesmen were found to identify with elephants through a sense of mutual loss, poverty, and uncertainty.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
These are essentially the different combinations of proteins found in people either socially isolated or lonely, compared to the data gathered from people who don’t identify with those characteristics.
—Rich Haridy, New Atlas, 22 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for identify with
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“Identify with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/identify%20with. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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