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The phrase "acquire sympathy" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing the act of gaining or earning the understanding and compassion of others. Example: "Through his charitable work, he was able to acquire sympathy from the community, which led to increased support for his initiatives."
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Often it makes us feel better, but we don't really like to acquire sympathy, do we?
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And this means we must somehow acquire genuine sympathy with the public interest as a whole.
Thus I acquire by sympathy the pleasure or uneasiness that I imagine people would feel were the trait able to operate as it ordinarily does.
In response, Shylock increasingly acquires our sympathy and inhabits a tragic grandeur that was missing from his earlier, grotesque ranting.
To win sympathy and closure?
Gain sympathy.
He loses none of his daring and none of his subversive qualities, but he acquires a new sympathy as a son, husband, father, friend.
The ARF gradually acquired significant strength and sympathy among Russian Armenians.
As if in sympathy, the word "bias" acquired the same ambiguity around this time, as people began to use it not just for a mental predilection but for the actions that followed from it -- as in "bias attack".
They also felt more sympathy towards people who acquired HIV through blood transfusion, rather than through the use of IV drugs (agree = 89%, undecided = 5%, disagree = 6%).
Almost 90% of the students felt more sympathy towards people who had acquired HIV through blood transfusion, rather than through the use of IV drugs.
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