We do not root for Barry; we root for his comeuppance.
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We don't have to root for the monarchy to root for her.
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By all means, root for your son, but root for his entire being.
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To root for them in this game is to root for the 1 percent.
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I think all of us have to root for him and root for this gut thing.
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You don't have to root for what she's doing You do kind of root for her, though.
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"You want to root for this guy until you can't root for him any longer," Phillips explained.
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Arguably, none of the Roys are people you want to root for — despite being family, they can't even root for each other.
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Christie has one thing on Trump—he's not just the jerk voters can root for, he's the jerk the establishment can root for.
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I root for whoever at this point because I can't root for me, but man, I was not planning to leave that early.
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Who doesn't want to root for an artist to be able to perform their work, or root for Big Business to stop oppressing musicians?
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It told me that when Survivor fans invest in you and really root for you, they will continue to root for you until you win.
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We pity and root for him as we pity and root for the Khuranas: a draw in a situation where everyone is bound to lose.
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In modern fandoms, however, fans of movies and TV shows often root for their ships to become canon the way sports fans root for their teams.
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If you don't know who to root for as you see reports of competing forces and hear accounts of rival narratives, root for the Venezuelan people.
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Perhaps black and white Americans, on average, root for different teams, and the teams they root for happen to have more players that share their skin color. Nope.
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"The Republican hype houses all root for Trump, and the liberal hype houses all root for Bernie," said Javon Fonville, 19, the founder of the progressive hype house (handle: @votebernie2020).
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That's the genius of Collins: You get really invested in the characters to the point where you root for certain ones to live and root for certain ones to die.
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" She added, "If I do a job just as well as a man, people tune in every week, they see me, they root for me just like they root for him.
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I'll root for them to play safe — and lose.
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You root for a Johnson painted so satanically dark against the angelic brightness of Coke Stevenson that you inevitably find yourself thinking of Macbeth and how Shakespeare made you root for him.
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It's that transparency that make people really root for her.
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"I like to root for a winning team," she said.
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So this year people will continue to root for Tasha.
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There are couples to root for and couples to loathe.
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You somehow makes us root for Joe in this episode.
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Investors may want to root for a Clinton win, though.
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Yet you can't help but root for some of them.
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Sure, they didn't all root for the same baseball teams.
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It doesn't mean you have to root for Yale, either.
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But it doesn't necessarily want you to root for them.
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There's no one to root for in Wallis Simpson's story.
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In this game, officials must not root for a side.
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You root for a tie — and maybe some minor injuries.
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You root for Schur's characters; you want them to win.
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Root for people to get thrown out on the street?
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It's always way more fun to root for the underdogs.
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Through some alchemy, she persuades us to root for sociopaths.
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I don't really have a team that I root for.
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You kinda can't help but root for this dude, though.
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It's not always easy to know whom to root for.
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Do we quietly resent the very success we root for?
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But we all can root for the rule of law.
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We're backing the team, and the answer is ROOT FOR.
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There's really no one to root for, not even Peter.
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Can you think of a guy you'd rather root for?
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After all, no one wants to root for a villain. ●
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When you root for the Yankees, you truly expect success.
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I yell along with them, because while I have no particular ties to either team, I appreciate the motto offered by another person at the party: If you can't root for LSU, root for chaos.
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I will continue to root for you, now from the sidelines.
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And while you're at it, root for those around you, too.
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I think he's a great guy … and I root for him.
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Root for Jon; cheer if or when Ramsay loses his life.
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No one can root for Mindy to be with that Danny.
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That makes him the clear guy for liberals to root for.
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She's a scrappy, deliciously flawed character, impossible not to root for.
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At some point, you can't help but root for the guy.
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I root for her in her career and everything she's doing.
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If you met them, you would root for their love story.
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Can you root for a guy who's been accused of rape?
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He's the hero, so we root for him and against her.
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And I think we wonder and root for Bill's next day.
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Nobody the reader would be all that inclined to root for.
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We're allowed to root for things other than efficiency and ROI.
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Malcolm X went on the record to publicly root for Clay.
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Besides, without drivers, what else are the fans to root for?
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And we couldn't ask for a better woman to root for.
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But Tess is a character you root for and collude with.
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He's a passionate man, and that's why we root for him.
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We now feel obliged to not root for America doing good.
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Who wouldn't root for, pray for, hope for, a child's survival?
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People pick their team and root for it and that's it.
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Dandelion root, for example, is found in products marketed toward pets.
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We said, 'Well, now we've got a team to root for.
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"I will continue to root for you, now from the sidelines."
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They both root for the Steelers and squabble about climate change.
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People will always root for someone trying to shed a millstone.
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I wanted to root for this spirited underdog all the way.
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There are reasons to hope so and to root for that.
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"We wanted you to root for him to win," Benny says.
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But we'll gladly root for anything that might make a difference.
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"That's one of the reasons so many people root for her."
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"I will continue to root for the Bears," he said to laughter.
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He's instantly unlikable, which makes him a tough character to root for.
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Despite knowing the tragic outcome from the beginning, you'll root for them.
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Overall, most people were excited to root for their favorite digital influencers.
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You want to root for her, even as you worry about him.
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And as with those early seasons, you root for Gretchen and Jimmy.
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BENNETT: In the NBA finals he doesn&apost seem to root for.
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As Twitter teeters financially, its critics don't know what to root for.
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And I refuse to root for her just because she's a woman.
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Lord knows there's not a damn thing else to root for, here.
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Dear Texas, This is the only time I will root for you.
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When you don't root for a team, no team can hurt you.
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So if your team is St. Joseph's, you root for St. Joseph's.
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So, root for him or develop a seething hatred of him accordingly.
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Singh is a solid, attractive protagonist, and we root for him continually.
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For the anti-establishment fan, Daley is the man to root for.
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The victim plays for the team I root for, by the way.
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Growing up in New Haven, did you root for the Red Sox?
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In public, at least, you're supposed to root for the home team.
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Few artists have been easier to root for than Chance The Rapper.
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It's sort of hard to root for her, but you want to.
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Right now that's a depressing thought if you root for the Pistons.
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People root for the Hardy Brothers the men, not just the characters.
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"There's no woman to root for and to stand with," she says.
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Still, you can't help but root for his impressive run to continue.
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To revere the Streif is in some ways to root for it.
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No one elsewhere wants to root for a team like the Yankees.
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They tell us what to care about and whom to root for.
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Still, guessing KF will learn to root for a new team. Congrats!!
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I root for one more good story for these guys to tell.
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"Black Panther" gave audiences so much to root for and talk about.
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It's hard to root for or care about someone we barely know.
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It's hard not to root for Steve Carell in this 2005 comedy.
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Do you root for the little pigs or the big bad wolf?
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It's a drama in which there is no one to root for.
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It's hard to know which craven, power-hungry character to root for.
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But this is a couple you'd be crazy not to root for.
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Apple was offering publishers an incentive to root for it over Amazon.
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Maybe I might ROOT them ON. But mostly I root for them.
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Brett Granstaff has the type of name a wrestler would have in real life—you'd never root for a Brett Granstaff, but you'd totally root for The Masked Saint once you learned his real name was Brett Granstaff.
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You root for Abigail, the newcomer and underdog, as she tries to secure her livelihood, and then you root for Sarah just as strongly as she struggles to maintain her position by banishing her competition from the court.
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I think they have the deepest issues, but I just root for them.
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Once Senegal and Nigeria got knocked out, that&aposs who we root for.
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As a lifelong fan, Kevin loves to watch and root for the Mets.
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This is one of the rare teams that I can root for wholeheartedly.
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Pence said he would root for Brazil — while he is on Brazilian soil.
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Tune in to root for him at the Golden Globe Awards on Jan.
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There's No One To Root For In The James Charles Beauty YouTuber Drama.
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That's as good a reason as any to root for a woman, no?
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And that can give us hope to root for human-Neanderthal true love.
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Our job as leaders is to empower our teams and root for them.
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And so, for once, for now, I get to root for the process.
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We root for them when they post cute-as-hell pictures on Instagram.
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It's getting pretty hard to root for anyone on American Horror Story: Cult.
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Is this the only way to get people to actually root for Arie?
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The art of good filmmaking means creating characters that people can root for.
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No. We need to become Americans and root for America, and unite America.
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We didn't know who to root for — Tyrion or Bronn; Jaime or Dany?
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Pop fan or not, it's hard to not want to root for Ariana.
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Personally, I never know whether to root for the predators or the prey.
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"There is an inevitable urge to root for him," our basketball columnist writes.
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Every time I'm ready to root for Molly, she takes a step backwards.
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We pay taxes, show up for jury duty and root for the Redskins.
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It was bad news for fans who root for underdogs, to be sure.
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It's also where fans can root for the defending-champion U.S. women's team.
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But Taylor and Lacy are both pretty charming and you root for them.
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You don't just root for Zain or believe in him: You trust him.
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We readers can't help becoming invested in the guy, to root for him.
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Forget the professional athletes or the leisure-seeking schlubs who root for them.
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Instead, Joe Pera Talks With You and its world actively root for him.
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You hold your breath and can't help but root for her safe journey.
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"Man, down my way it's hard to root for the Yankees," Biden said.
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There can't be many "Jeopardy!" champions easier to root for than Cindy Stowell.
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Characters you root for and a story that grips from the first page.
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WHAT YOU CAN ROOT FOR IN THE POST SEASON IS LOTS OF GAMES, OKAY?
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Now we have to all root for the L.A. Lakers, which is very painful.
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In an episode full of extended reunions, this is one I can root for!
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This is a dilemma for winners — or rather, for those who root for them.
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It's hard not to root for a place with such an inspiring back story.
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Which celebrity family will you root for as artificial intelligence take over the world?
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Bachelor In Paradise hasn't exactly given us a love story to root for yet.
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Unless they go and do something incredibly out of character, we'll root for them.
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And yet has a genuine sweetness to him that you really root for him.
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Hogan biiki, a tendency to root for the underdog, may also play a part.
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Antiheroes, or the bad guys we root for, tend to be parts for men.
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Worse yet, we also root for the opposing team to have their lives destroyed.
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And for the first time in the series, I'm ready to root for her.
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And all those sports fans out there will absolutely have something to root for.
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Rough Night is a movie that, from the beginning, I wanted to root for.
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That left me with no one to root for and indifferent to the outcome.
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While we could root for each of these characters, they all operated within dysfunction.
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Let's root for the home team as they cut down on single-use plastics.
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Under no circumstances does a Longhorns fan root for the Aggies, or vice versa.
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We see her suffer, and we empathize with her and root for her revenge.
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You always root for the guys that you had, especially when they were young.
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From our postmodern perspective, it is easy to silently root for his eccentric explorations.
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Blue Jays fans lose because they don't get to root for Donaldson any more.
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And yet nobody really seems to root for Cody Rhodes that much these days.
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How hard is it to root for a team that is just that bad?
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They root for you or against you, as they do with a sports team.
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And it goes both ways; I root for him when he goes on dates.
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We should root for both the Iranian and Saudi youth movements to bury 1979.
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The question remains whether the Academy is in the mood to root for David.
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It's more fun to have a team to root for in a big game.
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The viewer grows to understand and root for her, but it takes some time.
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"The main character's not really someone I want to root for," one classmate says.
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Wildlife filmmakers praised Mr. Root for having the patience necessary to achieve striking shots.
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Even after the arrests or priest seductions or elaborate stabbings, you root for them.
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I've started to quietly root for them, and to like the booksellers I meet.
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And the contestants are, by and large, people you actually want to root for.
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That said, I always root for the person without pedigree, someone who's bootstrapped themselves.
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You root for Andy to get her act together, to start dressing the part.
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We don't ever really get to know the characters we're supposed to root for.
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I decide to root for the Cavs, even though I'm not a Lebron fan myself.
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It's impossible to watch Captain America: Civil War and root for Tony Stark/Iron Man.
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She is their hero, and you root for and support your hero no matter what.
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The raccoon gave people something to root for, but it sure was a perilous journey.
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People thanked him for bringing families together and giving them something to collectively root for.
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You need to excite them and you need to give them someone to root for.
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Fans also rushed to social media to root for Peth to be the next Bachelor.
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Black Panther gave us a hero to root for and a place to dream about.
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How are those of us watching at home supposed to know who to root for?
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And as their personal stories are unpacked throughout the series, we do root for them.
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"She's very happy to know that so many people root for her," the source says.
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Over the course of Cult, it's fair to say fans grew to root for Ally.
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Having been on the jury, I know how much the jurors root for the underdog.
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Game recognizes game, as they say; a perpetual beta tends to root for an underdog.
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If a loveable welterweight KO's or submits his way there, they will root for him.
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You and many, many others root for Isaac in all his current and future endeavors.
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He believed in an America where we root for and remain loyal to each other.
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If the Rangers cannot win the pennant, Beltre said, he will root for his friend.
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Jokes aside, Damon states that its important to root for the success of the country.
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Danny Rand, its hero who's anointed the "chosen one," wasn't someone you could root for.
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Other fans 'should' get the opportunity to root for their team in the Super Bowl.
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Have you ever had a rivalry with fans who root for someone—or something—else?
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What were we supposed to root for, longer meet-and-greet lines for Kennedy Davenport?
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"We really needed a reason for people to root for us again," the executive added.
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It's good to root for your team at the baseball field or the football stadium.
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That would be an outcome that Americans, Afghans and Pakistanis can all root for together.
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For all my criticisms of the Sanders campaign, I do want to root for him.
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They see themselves as good people, and they want to root for a good man.
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And he has found himself in a quandary: to root for the Yankees, or not?
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We root for them because we have spent years falling in love with this crew.
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And everyone might root for the cast of unknowns, all but McCarrell making Broadway debuts.
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He's about as hard to root for as any movie outlaw you can think of.
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But he is trying to do that, so I hope that's something to root for.
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Notebook It's a big decision: choosing a sports team to root for with your child.
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If you're from the South, we shouldn't have to tell you who to root for.
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It is a dizzying reality, especially for the many fans who root for both teams.
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Giving fans of every team someone to root for — or at least something to do.
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"Delvey is weirdly easy to root for ..." Cady Drell wrote for Marie Claire in June.
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It really established her as a character we can both root for and laugh with.
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Let's have people root for the rain, and if they get it, they make money!
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It's more that Owens is just an easy guy to root for no matter what.
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The Baltimore Orioles want everyone to be able to root, root, root for the home team.
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I've said this, I as a reporter, what I root for is a balance of power.
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Yeltsin said he would root for him — but promised no Russian interference in the American election.
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It's pretty darn sweet, and it made me root for Rick and Michonne that much more.
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Confession: I honestly don't know who to root for in this battle, but I'm leaning Lannister.
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While that might seem like a pretty solid root for my fear, I'm not so sure.
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Be it if he turns it into something else, we're incentivized to root for their success.
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He's an action hero in the same light, a generic white-guy everyman to root for.
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And I'm sure you're pissed whatever obscure-ass team you root for isn't on there too.
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Fortunately, there was a way I could root for Tiger and exit my Molinari bet early.
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But if no such candidate emerges — as seems increasingly likely — what then should we root for?
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You'll root for them so hard that you'll concentrate your will power on changing the ending.
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So if you have Inhumans versus X-Men, so who are you supposed to root for?
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For a brief period, everyone came together to root for a totally random and silly cause.
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Lasting passion is the underdog here, and who doesn't like to root for a good underdog?
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Front-to-back, Springsteen's undying optimism and lifelong tendency to root for the underdog are pervasive.
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Rowe is one of the gallerists that you especially root for in these crazily seismic times.
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And yes I still root for my squad and still love all the ones I loved.
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The funny thing about high school basketball is that people like to root for the favorites.
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It's still hard to tell if we're meant to root for Jean or to hate her.
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From the sidelines, Patrick Flores and his son Patrick Jesus Flores root for their family's team.
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We're meant to identify with them, and to root for them, and to care about them.
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Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) is ready to root for the Phillies: It's baseball day in America.
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Sorry if that hurts people, but it's either root for a recession or lose your democracy.
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I don't like watching characters that I'm supposed to root for go through harrowing, terrifying scenarios.
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They may root for American success; indeed, in the field, their lives sometimes depend on it.
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Last weekend, she visited basketball games and the baseball field to root for fellow student-athletes.
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It's the team that's easy to root for until you remember what jerks the Wilpons are!
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He makes a lot of people around here really struggle to root for the home team.
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And just like in real life, you're not supposed to root for that type of person.
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Holly is vengeful, obsessed, and downright murder-y, and you'd be insane to root for her.
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If you're going to adopt a country to root for, why not one you experienced firsthand?
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"I have a tendency to always root for the underdog and the weaker party," he said.
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Matt Yglesias: I mean, as a journalist you definitely have to root for a convention showdown.
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In Norwich, kids don't specialize in a single sport, and they even root for their rivals.
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They painted them as a couple enamored with each other, who were easy to root for.
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Only a fool would predict its success — but only a fool would not root for it.
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The bears root for sedges and skunk cabbage in the estuary in front of the village.
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There are about a thousand reasons both to root for Zero and to be intensely skeptical.
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Selfishly, I root for my friends, but Derek and I have had this conversation a bunch.
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Still, Kihlgren remains optimistic — and how can anyone who loves Italy not root for his success?
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Should we root for its protagonists, who use their talents to extract money from unsuspecting men?
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But Brosnan remained tight-lipped about who he might root for in the 2020 presidential election.
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Blessin, Cori, and Tayla make you smile, make you worry and make you root for them.
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It's a slow-burn thriller with characters who are compellingly drawn but hard to root for.
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Few are excited about the Super Bowl, and fewer still expect to root for the Rams.
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Mr. Ellis is a Yankees fan, but his son and daughter root for the Red Sox.
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Decide whether you'll root for Buenos Aires rivals Boca Junior or River Plate ahead of time.
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I think we've seen puzzles with dynamic duos before, but I don't remember duos in opposition, which did get me thinking about what makes us need someone to root for wholeheartedly and someone else to be the heel (we secretly root for that person too, a little).
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"I told him a long time ago I'd always root for him as a player," she recalled.
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This creepy feeling makes it that much harder to root for Jamey and Sierra's supposedly sweet romance.
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"I wanted somebody who I felt the audience wants to root for," Banks says of casting Scott.
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He's ready to represent Hawaii and his family, and we're ready to root for that earnest face.
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Sorry if that hurts people, but it&aposs root for a recession or you lose your democracy.
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"I wanted the audience not to be sure of who they were gonna root for," she said.
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Either way, we're loving the look on Johnson, and can't help but root for her dark side.
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We can root for Walter White to evade prison while still acknowledging that he's a deplorable person.
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They also root for different baseball teams from different leagues (the Philadelphia Athletics and the Brooklyn Dodgers).
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It's exciting to root for two people to make it when the odds are stacked against them.
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Rejoice, for Vanderpump Rules queen bee Stassi Schroeder is finally in a relationship you can root for.
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America's liberals finally have a candidate they can wholeheartedly root for in the Republican primaries — Texas Sen.
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As a Red Sox fan, I'd rather root for the Yankees than wish for that to happen.
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What are the limits of decency, and can we ever root for someone who crosses that line?
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Should I really root for Newt to succeed at anything other than successfully tending to a kelpie?
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Feed-in braids are usually tiny and are closer to the root for a more natural finish.
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It's just not clear what it is, who we're supposed to pity, and who to root for.
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The "Prince Charming" packaging likely seemed necessary for TV audiences to digest (and root for) gay relationships.
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A street vendor in Hubei, China, is hawking a curious looking polygonum root for 1,200 yuan ($185).
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They're complicated, messy, even unlikeable — and it's impossible not to root for them, because they feel real.
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Sorry if that hurts people but it's either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.
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Supporters of Mr Snowden's actions are left to root for a cardboard cut-out of a hero.
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Some executives and employees have certainly left, but many remain and continue to root for Uber's success.
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"The governor has said you root for the pilot of the plane you are on," Weaver said.
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This doesn't mean you have to go as far as Klosterman does and actually root for Duke.
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We may finally be in a cultural moment in which we can root for the ravenous woman.
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Sorry if that hurts people, but it's either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.
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We want to root for Katherine, but then she turns around and acts cruelly to her servants.
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As a fight fan, it is hard not to root for the Bellator welterweight tournament to succeed.
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It surely made the news more exciting to have certain diplomats and particular ethnicities to root for.
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The two are so lovely together that you'll root for them, and that's part of the point.
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When it was a student ensemble, it was easy to simply root for these inspired young musicians.
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But she also does a really unethical thing — and yet I can't help but root for her.
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" Or, "I just decided to root for the Patriots because I like that spunky third-string quarterback.
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Heigl left the series back in 2010, and the show made viewers root for Jo and Alex.
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I unceremoniously burned my Peyton Manning jersey in the fireplace and decided to root for the Bears.
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We root for Andrew to come clean and connect, as much for his benefit as our entertainment.
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Number two, he made me root for him to do narcotics in the bathroom, a personal first.
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Russia can just relax and watch and root for Trump, which Putin does at every TV appearance.
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Rachel is a never-satisfied multimillionaire, but we come to understand why, and root for her too.
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Her Cara is instantly likable in rejecting Kevin's crass economic come-ons; you root for her priggishness.
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I silently root for the skaters I see, much as I did for my old Marine comrades.
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However — and I say this with no shame — I do root for good stories and for blowouts.
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Some resolved to put their anger at Mr. Spanos aside and continue to root for the players.
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The Knicks, the team Stern would root for as a boy, wouldn't exist for another four years.
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For everyone else, it comes down to this: If you like watching re-runs, root for Clemson.
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For bonus points: Tell us the Latin root for each of the above words and their meaning.
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Because this is all presented as a love story, we're supposed to root for the young lovers.
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The O'Malley children have been on the road in Iowa since Friday to root for their father.
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This is a survival story, and it works because the reader can't help but root for Turtle.
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This doesn't make it bad, but it does make it (*whispers*) kind of boring to root for.
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I root for the freaks for whom romance looks strange but is no less special for it.
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But as much as fans want to root for them, fans also seem convinced they're no longer friends.
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Sorry if that hurts people, but it&aposs either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.
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Empathizing with Buckley doesn't come naturally, but 9-1-1 seems to want us to root for him.
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In case you aren't sure who to root for, here are all the nominees we reviewed in 2015.
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To suddenly root for the Dems means these pundits are effectively embracing that which they have always denounced.
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But what troubles me in saying root for Democrats, what troubles me is some of the overheated rhetoric.
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It might be easier to handle the series's exhaustingly glacial pace if we had someone to root for.
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But then she got pregnant with Jaime's child, and we had a reason to root for her again.
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That's wonderful for people who root for Cleveland to be relevant, but is also the more boring alternative.
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They made us laugh, cry, and root for them as a modern-day couple in Crazy, Stupid, Love.
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I voted neither for Law and Justice nor for Civic Platform, but I root for the new government.
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That makes it a real challenge to root for these two crazy kids trying to make it work.
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There would be months of churlish resentment on AM radio, oaths to never root for the team again.
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"I love, adore & root for @khloekardashian but I'm so disappointed she stayed with that wasteman Tristan," wrote @ChicBitchxo.
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Heck, I always gasp, even though I also always root for Hal to break himself away from Falstaff.
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Not just with your ability but with you as a person and root for you, care about you.
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We don't want to lose any of them, so who the heck are we supposed to root for?
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The overwhelming majority of baseball fans interact with the sport in terms of the team they root for.
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Lifetime The most daring aspect of UnReal, however, is how hard its main characters are to root for.
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But there are times when you can forget that and start to root for them without realizing it.
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She legitimately seems so much less self-conscious with the fellow freshman, and that's something to root for.
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Audiences just root for them and are so happy, I believe, to witness their characters' courage and growth.
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This year, the South Carolina men's basketball team has given fans of the underdog something to root for.
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There is not, admittedly, a lot of sunshine here, or characters to "root for" in the conventional sense.
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And there are reasons why we might want to root for a modest effect, rather than zero effect.
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Idealistic Diana, an Amazon from the mythical Themyscira, was charming, and fans were eager to root for her.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - At the Campos Mini stadium in Lagos, cheerleaders dance as spectators root for their local team.
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Carolyn Bechtel, 67, attended Sonics games before Seattle had an NFL or an MLB team to root for.
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There is an inevitable urge to root for him after what he endured in his first two seasons.
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But I have never been a fan of the theory that you root for the most awful opponent.
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It gave you something to root for, and it was a way to gamble without losing any money.
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Elizabeth Warren and Mark Zuckerberg don't see eye to eye on things (gee, who to root for there?).
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READ MORE: CNN's complete NFL Championship coverage Let's start with the big question: Who should I root for?
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Of course you could root for whatever team is closest to you, or whatever team your mom likes.
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Today, a similar epiphany is required for a comprehensive strategy to take root for countering state-sponsored disinformation.
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Richie hasn't given viewers much reason to root for him, either as a hero or as an antihero.
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If you root for underdogs with a punching chance, well, the Milwaukee Brewers are exactly that right now.
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But Mr. Rénéric gives him a childlike innocence and an irrepressible enthusiasm that make you root for him.
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Barnhill looks past their oddness to their humanity, and we identify with them and root for their success.
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As it ascended, well-wishers gathered on the sidewalk below to take photos and root for its safety.
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A try-hard is someone who works hard while you watch and secretly root for them to fail.
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Maybe it became possible to root for A-Rod only after he flew too close to the sun.
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It's a murder mystery where maybe you could root for the murderer, Murder on the Orient Express-style.
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Garcia inspired a young pitcher in Venezuela, Felix Hernandez, to learn the changeup and root for the Mariners.
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It gave them permission to root for him again, full-throated, despite all the ways he'd disappointed them.
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Our job is to inform, not to root for one side or the other in the political divide.
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It is a testament to Dorey-Stein's charm and her writing chops that we root for her throughout.
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The show asks us to root for Miles, but you may find yourself pulling for the clone instead.
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It's hard to root for anyone — even Infinity and Ricardo, the peons caught in the craven kids' crosshairs.
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Nohemi would have beaten many odds, and we root for people who defy statistics and set new paths.
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In a predominantly black neighborhood in South Los Angeles on Thursday, people continued to root for Mr. Simpson.
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Moreover, getting kids to root for an adult woman in the Brooklyn dating scene seems precarious at best.
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And if you wanted to eat at my grand-pop's house, you had to root for the Yankees.
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When I solve a puzzle that's shaping up to be a pangram, I root for it to happen.
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There's plenty of reasons to root for this — devices have seemingly hit the upper threshold of product footprint.
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Ask someone whom they'll root for in the World Cup and you'll likely end up hearing a story.
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And on a lighter note, she refuses to root for Kevin Durant Friday night ... because well, you know.
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These are all good reasons to root for Carol as she becomes the newest member of the MCU.
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Brown also acknowledged that though she could be "challenging," her #beastsquad was always there to "root" for her happiness.
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It was hard to know who to root for going into today's Euro 2016 matchup between Ireland and France.
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We're not supposed to root for him or hope one day he will learn the error of his ways.
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The Economist: In the battle of "the people" versus "democracy", who should liberals in the 21st century root for?
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But this year, I'm faced with an unusual problem: I can't decide who to root for Best Supporting Actress.
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Families are no longer plagued by political differences, and everyone's super happy to root for a healthy, ample army.
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He is a mix of charm and vulnerability that makes him instantly likable and makes you root for him.
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You root for him the whole time even though he wants something that every adult knows can't really happen.
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A unified EU soccer team would dominate the World Cup, but nobody would actually want to root for it.
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"I don't have a particular team I root for, I'm a fan of the game, the league," he said.
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At Gem, he takes the humble root for all it's worth, aging, smoking, braising, grilling, roasting, and juicing it.
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The natural pathos he has as a performer makes you root for him even as he's murdering innocent people.
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While people rarely root for their city to hit dire times, most of them don't live in San Francisco.
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Meek has had his fair share of missteps but none of these are reasons to root for his demise.
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By the end, it was easier to root for a merciful disappearance than it was for the player himself.
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Supercilium refers to the eyebrow, where fine hairs also grow, and is the root for supercilious, with raised brow.
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"I've found it hard to root for the Patriots of late simply because they've been so successful," she said.
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Let me start by saying I don't want anyone to fail, so we don't root for people to fail.
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Maybe they wouldn't be in this predicament if they just crushed up a wholesome yaro root for Mommy's headache.
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Mindful of details like these, the citizens clap and shout slogans and root for the soldiers from their country.
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"The story only works if it's also a real romantic comedy that you can root for," Ms. Gamble said.
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Not only is she a voice of reason, Fareeda is one of the only characters you can root for.
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But I'll never feel ashamed to think of him as my president, much less to root for his success.
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You have to root for anyone who hangs on to his NFL dreams after getting cut by six teams.
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The Bay Area is filled with transplants seeking Silicon Valley riches — and maybe a local team to root for.
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We condemn bias when it matters just as instinctively as we root for the home team when it doesn't.
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For many local soccer fans, there will be no obvious team to root for: The United States didn't qualify.
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Saturday • Root for New York's Audible at a Kentucky Derby Party at Berg'n Beer Hall in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
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At first you root for one side to knock out the other, but the balance of sympathy slowly shifts.
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Get in the Christmas spirit and find a way to root for America, or get left behind in 2018.
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And I think Issa's an amazing actress and her personality comes across on screen, so you root for her.
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You always root for the underdog, and you were totally the kid who befriended the weirdo in grade school.
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But he knows when it comes to the NBA Finals, he can only really root for one of 'em.
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No word on which team Pence will root for ... but it's obvious his boss is ALL ABOUT the Patriots.
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Just as you were starting to root for the walking Zoolander parody, he literally starts doing Blue Steel at dinner.
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On the other, everyone would lose their minds, and the "root for maximum chaos" theory says we should want that.
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In disaster movies, the audience is meant to root for the people who are looking for food amongst the devastation.
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Let him play for ten years in the NBA; he's insanely easy to root for, and he certainly deserves it.
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I&aposm sorry if that hurts people, but it&aposs either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.
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Darlene, however, was more than just an irascible heroine of adolescent disaffection: She was also the Conner to root for.
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We root for Willa, even though she's clinging to the mid-20th-century American dream, but she's resisting progress, too.
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Yes, there was a time when there was only one female emcee topping the charts that fans could root for.
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Meet the freshest faces in the industry and get ready to root for them as they rise to the top.
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My cool little brother is a basketball coach at Cape Fear Community College, so I root for the Sea Devils.
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I mean...I knew this would happen but I was really starting to root for his twisted friendship with Maeve.
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Even with all of this bad behavior, it's impossible not to root for either woman, even at their darkest points.
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I think the audience perhaps can get to that idea, and root for the people who want to transform themselves.
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Veronica and Sierra's is the friendship we root for just as much as the love story between Sierra and Jamey.
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It's easy to root for their younger selves, especially when you know just how thoroughly they'll end up being crushed.
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Thousands of commenters weighed in on the debate, each giving their own reason for choosing a side to root for.
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ET to root for Alli and Jen, and to learn a little about the original women breaking records throughout history.
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She is an intelligent woman who only speaks Korean, emotes emphatically, and quickly became my favorite character to root for.
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And it's also easy to root for them to finally get over themselves and admit that they are in love.
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Spiegel's sleazy history of promoting a fratty culture at Snapchat has always made it hard to root for his company.
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The truffles remain soft and chewy in the mix, adding another dig-able element to root for in your pint.
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Both films are also borne out of the same conceptual premise: Spooky Japanese Thing, but With Caucasians to Root For.
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They may not be perfect or always make sense, but their willingness to exist makes them easy to root for.
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I'll still update on all of them, root for them and do whatever I can to help their future career.
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There have been many Green Lanterns defending earth over the years, and now we have two more to root for.
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I think I want to root for terrible, narcissistic women to take up as much space as terrible, narcissistic men.
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"The whole point of being a sports fan is to root for your team," Mr. Earnest said of the president.
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Still, Moyes paints an engrossing picture of life in rural America, and it's easy to root for the enterprising librarians.
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"Sorry if that hurts people, but it's either root for a recession or you lose your democracy," he said then.
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"People still root for billionaires because it reinforces the idea that they can do it too," Mr. Kirshenbaum said recently.
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It would have been nice if she were presented as someone we could root for, instead of a volatile burden.
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Remember way back in the summer of 2004, when it was kind of fun to root for the Red Sox?
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And isn't it extra nice that that country has a soccer team you can root for during the World Cup?
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Las Vegas is also a town of transplants who, if they like hockey, tend to root for their hometown teams.
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The rest of us may have to root for a souped-up recorded edition, perhaps one offering different vantage points.
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But unless you root for the team on the wrong end of one, they are the happiest things on Earth.
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We want to root for poor, bored, put-upon Katherine, but then she turns around and acts cruelly to Anna.
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In "Edward Scissorhands," it is the monster and the disenchanted teenager that we root for, not the creepily perfect suburbanites.
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If you want to root for a team that's never won before, Belgium and Colombia are both getting some attention.
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But while liberals tend to root for the underdog, white males have not been first in line for their sympathy.
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Truman and Buddy share a Twitter account, where they explore their Indiana digs and root for their presidential candidate dad.
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But I'll let you in on a secret: Many people who write about sports don't root for a particular team.
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It's tempting to root for good guys against bad guys in a conflict on TV, especially if Russia is involved.
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You can tune in and sincerely root for a lasting connection between a dental hygienist and a junior sales associate.
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And she draws on our sympathies: It is impossible not to root for a boy so foundationally unmoored by circumstance.
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Though it's easy to root for Lil Nas, that's certainly another example of an artist using loopholes to their advantage.
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Fourteen years after his son had left his Mets to root for the Giants, he found he couldn't resist, either.
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If you root for a rival team, stop the trash talk ... and start trying to kill Brady with KINDNESS already!!!
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Click here to view original GIFSure, the restaurants are great, and you've probably got a decent sports team to root for.
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Jeff's a big fan of Foles -- but says it still pains him for a Giants fan to root for the Eagles.
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I hope he can find a way to break himself of his suffering, preferably on a team I don't root for.
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Today, stars like Selena Gomez, Bella Hadid, Mila Kunis, and Vanessa Hudgens are Instagramming reasons we should root for its return.
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This week, TechCrunch is headed back to Africa to checkout the amazing startups taking root for our global Startup Battlefield competitions.
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Rigg told Realscreen that he hopes viewers will root for the inmates as they struggle to change their behavior inside Madison.
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Yet, the scary moment also sets up a now-impossible romance we can all root for: Joaquin (Rob Raco) and Archie.
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I began to root for them and, while the reasons were not romantic in the traditional sense, they became my team.
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What's new here is the perspective: now we have fans jumping into the economic fray to root for their preferred corporation.
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If you haven't yet landed on who to root for during the World Cup, you should seriously consider getting behind Senegal.
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You have to see a character fall on their face if you're going to root for them to get back up.
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In the end, that often works out, because it's easier to connect with the characters and root for them to succeed.
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But this pattern makes the narrative compelling: You root for her even if you know her story ends up relatively bittersweet.
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You don't have to root for Catra to be able to relate to the pain she feels of losing a friend.
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In Game of Thrones, we root for the same, even if we have a much smaller chance of a satisfactory ending.
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I learned to tell stories through the dark mind of a killer and still make an audience root for that person.
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It's in these moments that you can't help but root for her, but you're also sad and angry for her too.
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Given his love of the game and uphill climb to the NHL ranks, it was impossible not to root for him.
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Do you think we should keep old rivalries intact or throw them aside and root for whatever team is from California?
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BoJack ranks among television's new class of sub-anti-heroes, protagonists so bad that we don't even root for them, exactly.
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The two have stayed in touch on Facebook and continue to root for each other as they both pursue new relationships.
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Love amid the darkness becomes, well, a universal desire — a trope we can all relate to, unite around, and root for.
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When movies can't contradict their bad guys, they resort to dirtier play to ensure viewers root for who they're supposed to.
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Both onstage and offstage, spelling kids high-five one another, share study techniques and root for others once they have fallen.
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I casually root for Tottenham, because I decided they're mostly hopeless, and I definitely need more lost causes in my life.
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And L.A., the theory goes, is filled with front-runners, which means many others are starting to root for the team.
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In fact, if there were any issue on which Democrats should root for the president's success, it would be this one.
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What he's grappling with: There are so many problems with football, is it still O.K. to root for his school's team?
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I couldn't help but root for Thomas Wazhashk, Patrice, Wood Mountain, and all the other characters in the Turtle Mountain Reservation.
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But 83-year-old Tzuri Sagi, a retired brigadier general, has more reason than most Israelis to root for Kurdish independence.
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As much as people hate when raccoons make a mess of their garbage, most watching can't help but root for them.
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How did you toe the line between making Harley someone we can root for without giving her a moral redemption arc?
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The novel is so rich in detail it becomes almost mundane, but these wounded birds still make you root for them.
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Fox is a courageous de facto single mom that you can't help but root for from the moment she arrives onscreen.
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"I have to root for Tom," Trump told host Jeffrey Kuhner on "The Kuhner Report" on WRKO 680-AM in Boston.
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Sindhu managed to bring together a nation of cricket fanatics to root for her, in turn, becoming a popular hashtag herself.
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He chalks that up to tribal politics, saying parties have become like sports -- you root for your team no matter what.
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The reality is that freedom-lovers of all political stripes and orientations should root for Jack in his struggle against tyranny.
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That's why the guys who do custom kitchen deliveries might want to root for the Fed to keep interest rates low.
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"It's impossible to watch Captain America: Civil War and root for Tony Stark/Iron Man," writes my colleague Alex Abad-Santos.
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"There is a lot of talk — and I've contributed to it — about the move to darker threats and a larger cinematic scale, but here is the thing: Stranger Things works because we root for these kids, and we root for these damaged characters who live on the margins," Levy said at the Netflix event on Tuesday.
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"What I love about Channing is he is so willing to root for every single person in the room," said Stoner, 22.
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It would be easier to root for their happiness if they weren't one of those couples with creepy nicknames for each other.
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The set changeover, embedded below, is seemingly narrated by production directors, who root for and celebrate with the crew in the background.
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Tiffani Thiessen and Mark-Paul Gosselaar still have that undeniable chemistry that made us root for their Saved by the Bell characters.
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And you can bet that some liberal Democrats who stand to profit from Trump's reelection will secretly root for that to happen.
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When's the last time a tasteful period drama asked you to root for the long-term relationship between a queer, kinky threesome?
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A sneak preview of The Bachelorette's season finale has given fans of Eric and Peter a chance to root for their guys.
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Past winners are usually big, showy animals like the elephant and Sumatran rhino, but it's more fun to root for the underdog.
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Wingard and Barrett seem to have left their usual ability to make us love and root for characters back at the roadside.
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I think just to be safe we root for PSU to lose again and 11-1 OSU to meet us in Indy.
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I'm holding my breath that the series honors the film that came before it, and gives us a teenager to root for.
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I want verses about how she infiltrated the most famous family in reality and made everyone root for her in the process.
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Its star-studded ensemble cast and vignettes give us lots of characters to root for — like Hugh Grant as a dancing politician.
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We've come to know these men, root for them even — though the show never sugarcoats the violence inherent in their chosen path.
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I have a football team that I root for; I maybe check in on standings two or three times throughout a season.
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M. and one of my roommates are both in fantasy leagues, so I just root for whoever they want to get points.
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In the end, perhaps we're not supposed to just root for Marie Antoinette, but also for the crowd that ultimately beheads her.
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That, coupled with Elba's natural charisma, might make him easier to root for, but it also renders him unrecognizable to book fans.
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Those who care about financial transparency may want to root for this rocky marriage of Silicon Valley and Wall Street to survive.
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There was nothing escapist about it; I left wanting to root for the people who made this film and all they represent.
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Viewers are made to root for each of the Defenders of the Universe based on how well they interact with one another.
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And need we even mention how she gave the world a character to forever root for in the form of Harry Potter?
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"Sorry if that hurts people but it's either root for a recession or you lose your democracy," Maher said at the time.
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Behold, a guide: I want to support smaller market teams and watch networks sweat over viewership: Root for the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Call me cynical, but I think the trick to enjoying Fifty Shades is not to root for or identify with these people.
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I used to live in Washington, D.C. so this is tough for me, but I gotta root, root, root for the Cubbies!
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It's sort of a guy that makes decisions for reasons we could root for, but then you watch how it play out.
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We can all come together and cheer on Nazis getting punched out or root for the success of llamas on the lam.
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It gives the couple real obstacles—her terrifying sickness, his parents' disapproval—that give the audience real reasons to root for them.
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Regular players give advice to newcomers, call out happy birthday to each other, and root for their friends as much as themselves.
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And as Rhiannon, the appealing Angourie Rice is just the kind of teenager you root for in the finding-true-love department.
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I normally root for blue states over red states, but the Patriots are so pro-Trump I was rooting for the Falcons.
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Sunni Muslims root for a Sunni Muslim-financed team, Maronite Christians for a Maronite Christian team and Armenians for an Armenian team.
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Readers will root for her as she figures out the conflicting terrain of loving family and loving yourself at the same time.
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This was a pretty typical smooth and satisfying solve, although I finished still not knowing quite who to root for this year.
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One of the criticisms of "Succession" when the show debuted was that it was hard to root for any of the characters.
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Never before did we think we would root for the characters who would just as likely be the villains in another story.
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The thing I love about Angel is that people want to make her sweet or downtrodden so you can root for her.
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So if you're an alum of Seton Hall or Fairleigh Dickinson, you'll have to find another way to root for your team.
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Collins can also turn that feeling inside out and make you root for the charismatic Finnick or the damaged but loyal Johanna.
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Oh, and if you still wanna root for L.A. Chargers ... they'll remove the "San Diego" part from your tat, if you wish.
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Yet we watch to see how he will get out of the latest jam, and we root for him to defeat his adversaries.
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As a result, Five Feet Apart relies even further on its actors — if their chemistry's a bust, then there's nothing to root for.
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We cared about Heather, Josh and Mike so much more than these rather anonymous and annoying characters, who prove difficult to root for.
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These groups are common in the UK as teams' fans are spread out, with no geographical allegiances dictating who we must root for.
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You don't want to root for her to sell the jacket because she just spent all day doing nothing worthy of being praised.
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As things stand, Anderson will likely continue to root for France as they're set to play in the World Cup final on Sunday.
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I've since made so many more valuable connections: people who root for my success, want me to win, and see my business thrive.
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By joining forces, Cruz and Kasich aren't becoming the underdogs conservatives root for, they're highlighting the fact that Trump is the inevitable nominee.
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She was suspended for a week when — in a column about her struggles to root for the Boston Celtics — she mentioned Adolf Hitler.
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The movie certainly has its manipulative little charms, the rom-com moments designed to make us root for the two as a couple.
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But both children do their jobs well, portraying a sense of pluck and upbeat perseverance that make it easy to root for them.
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Having grown up in Maryland, I am a diehard Baltimore Ravens fan, but I will happily root for anyone to beat the Patriots.
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Eaton, 28, tells PEOPLE that there is sometimes a competitive spirit between he and his wife, but they still root for each other.
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Williams and Hardy have no chemistry — though, in everyone's defense, it's hard to root for the relationship after Eddie breaks into her computer.
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Remember, the show that started the "Terrible Man You Still Root For" trend, HBO's The Sopranos, began all the way back in 1999.
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As a former diehard BlackBerry user, it's hard not to root for BlackBerry to strike it hot with its move over to Android.
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One good reason not to root for them: Their fans made a hype song called The Fangerang: I mean... that's not good, right?
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These are bad people, but you're gonna root for them after spending lots of time in private, exposed as people with complex motivations.
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It's rather cute, in a Wall-E sort of way, and it makes you want to root for this small team from Germany.
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In order to prevent that, root for them to beat UCLA on Saturday and at least one team in the Pac-12 Tournament.
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A slayer of blackmailers and — for the first time in a long time in Silicon Valley — an underdog people want to root for.
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For his opponents, this is reason enough to root for Twitter's continued existence, even if it becomes irrelevant to everyone but the president.
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While we might not root for the DeMarios and Chads of Bachelor Nation, their presence makes The Bachelorette a far more interesting show.
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There's something about transcendent talent that causes people to root for it, no matter their allegiances or their usual embrace of the underdog.
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Whether you root for us or against us, we are grateful for your passion in the sport that has given us so much.
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" Warren asked at the Center for Popular Democracy's annual gala in Washington, D.C. "Root for people to get thrown out on the street?
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You know, the word "Hebrew" (ivri, as in a nationality, like Abraham the Hebrew) comes from the root for "to cross over" — la'avor.
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Yes, Jin wants us to root for Feng, but the novel includes nuanced debates on loyalty and identity, not just anti-Communist tirades.
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There's more potential for return on the investment when you root for the underdog than when the expected happens and the favorite wins.
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He hops into his truck (decked out in Lions logos) or his new 14-seater minibus and heads to root for his city.
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What I love about this upcoming project is that I get to care about the criminals for a change, and root for them.
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Despite this, we still manage to root for and empathize with her, thanks to Comer's incredible performance and Waller-Bridge's pitch perfect writing.
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You root for her so much and she does something so good, and then just like that you can be like, Aww, nooo.
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The movie was asking me to root for the heroes — but I wanted nothing more than for them to fail in their quest.
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There seems to be something about Ogunbowale that make people root for her (unless they are part of the Connecticut faithful, that is).
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If Rodriguez hadn't made his legacy a moot point, it would be great fun to root for him to keep on keepin' on.
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There were few countrymen in Colombia to root for; only 21 players from that country have made it to the majors, including Urshela.
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A pilot is a sales pitch; this is what the show's about, this is how you'll feel, this is who you'll root for.
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This dynamic, at least, is fresh; you root for Zigman's decent and vulnerable characters even while wanting to give them a good shake.
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It will make every second of every game of every week interesting to fans as it will give everyone something to root for.
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Now he has his shot, and I continue to root for him to govern wisely, because we're the real losers if he doesn't.
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And as if to remind you which team to root for, a roller coaster loops through the background, teasing Luna Park next door.
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You can reserve your own Root for $199 and join the mailing list to stay up to date on launch dates and news.
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The word comes from Latin for "foam" and is the root for such bubbly deliciousness as Asti Spumante, and frothy treats like Spumoni.
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"They are the first to cheer me on and root for me and let me know they are thinking of me," Sturch said.
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We especially root for Harry (Benjamin Nugent), the adorable Scottish boy away from home for the first time and quite nervous about it.
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That would be fine in a movie more tongue-in-cheek and less earnestly committed to getting us to root for this guy.
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Clinton has since said her dual allegiance is the result of loving baseball, but wanting to root for a winner, according to CNN.
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It's familiar for a reason: It's fun to root for an underdog, and gratifying to think that a champion can come from anywhere.
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At this point, there are only a few characters left to root for—and we're ready for them to get some revenge already.
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When Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux started dating a few years ago, they were a couple that fans couldn't help but root for.
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Other people can have their Seth and Summers, their Luke and Loreleis, their Ross and Rachels, but me, I root for these guys.
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To root for him was—could be—to root for the idea that Michael Jordan was still better than everything that came after him; that it was fine for your curiosity about the sport and about the people who played it to have calcified and become perfectly inert forever at the moment you decided Jordan was the greatest of all time.
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It&aposs easy for Maher to root for the economy to crash because he is sitting on millions, but at least he&aposs honest.
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Perhaps you're a selective sports fan, only tuning into games to root for your favorite female athlete (when is it ever not Serena Williams?).
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And so Syracuse enters this year's Final Four as the strangest kind of underdog: The pseudo-underdog no one really wants to root for.
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Inasmuch as the character is still morally ambiguous and very difficult to truly root for, he's more interesting than a lot of his contemporaries.
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Scott pulls off some eye-rollingly earnest dialogue with an arched eyebrow and determined delivery that makes us root for her from the start.
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We've seen this version of her in comics but to the movie really gifted us with a well-characterized female icon to root for.
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In other words, we don't have a reason for root for her, absent a total emotional breakdown or massive scandal during the fantasy suites.
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Essentially, Westworld has become less about being a mindfuck and more about power, about choosing who to root for and seeing which journey prevails.
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Such a transgression for a character that in the end we'll likely need to root for makes that scene even more unforgivable in hindsight.
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It was difficult to root for her, and the possessive lovers of the internet had already written her off as a conniving side chick.
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It's hard not to root for the Jennings from the beginning, even if you'd never in a million years call yourself a commie sympathizer.
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I've always been suspicious of how easily Buffett claims victory over work, but being in that crowd made me want to root for him.
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"Watching [women] become friends and then essentially become family, that's the kind of thing I root for when I watch a movie," she explains.
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Until the playing field for people of color is more level in institutions like Miss Universe, we will continue to root for everybody Black.
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She's even become actual pals with Blythe (Hari Nef), whose relationship with Joe's co-worker Ethan (Zach Cherry), is absolutely one to root for.
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Too many people were on one side of that trade, and it almost always makes sense to root for the underdog in those scenarios.
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As an impartial observer, it was unfair trying to decide who to root for in today's Final Four matchup between Gonzaga and South Carolina.
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We should root for our President -- that also doesn't mean we should fail to hold him accountable -- especially when he threatens our core values.
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We root for Samwell Tarly, adoptive father and scholar, to find the secret to defeating the White Walkers in the giant library of Oldtown.
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"House Republicans are not conducting meaningful oversight, but are instead taking every opportunity to undermine the law and root for its failure," said Reps.
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Still, the program suggests that steeping turmeric root for some tea or dashing the bright powder on your eggs won't be totally for naught.
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Taking a cue from ESPN's other nonathletic programming, the series is expected to focus on turning the pilots into characters you can root for.
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"Juárez is better now, definitely," says Whiskey, the equipment manager for Los Bravos, the soccer team I've come back to Juárez to root for.
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The nonprofit has just announced the Ocean Solutions Accelerator's first wave of startups: a particularly varied and international lineup that's easy to root for.
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We root for the Arya Starks, Walter Whites, and Omar Littles, who can murder, but do so from a place that's motivationally identifiable somehow.
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"As Iowa's senior US Senator, I will do what it takes to 'root, root, root' for the home team," he said in the speech.
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It's hard not to root for them even if they're obvious and underdeveloped, burdened with dialogue that too often sounds programmatic rather than embodied.
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It's like the song, "root, root, root for the home team, if they don't win it's a shame!" but there's just something to that.
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"The fact that everybody is coming together to root for one thing is pretty cool," Mr. Rarang said, of his hopes for the Raptors.
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How could they root for athletes with cartoonish muscles who were likely to win medals only to later fail tests for performance-enhancing drugs?
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There's a fragility to her that makes one want to root for her, and then there are her children, who appear to be thriving.
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In that way, he is a prototypical Net, and a reason the team became easy to root for during its unexpected 42-40 season.
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But are we really supposed to root for one of this story's heroes to eventually sit upon the symbol of all that is terrible?
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As much as I enjoyed "Dynasty," I never felt inspired to root for power-couple Blake and Krystle Carrington (John Forsythe and Linda Evans).
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In fact, 18 of the 26 shows chose to justify the misconduct of their police characters so that audiences continue to root for them.
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When she does get out of it, it's very exciting for her, even though this world is not something you want to root for.
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Deep in the Polo Grounds' center field stood a fan like no other — a fan clearly born to root for the New York Mets.
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You fear for him, and also root for him, and mostly you are captivated by his story and the sophisticated simplicity of its telling.
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Where every season of the show found its protagonist difficult to root for but never irredeemable, the final episodes document his long-overdue accountability.
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I will root for him, will support him through this journey, and will leverage him as a great leader when he returns next year.
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"In the heat of the moment, of course, because loyal friends will always root for you when you're on a game show," Emily added.
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He's hard to root for, but watching him get close to ultimate victory and/or colossal defeat over and over again is wonderfully intense.
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Fans, understandably, felt that they had finally found a safe queer romance to root for, and they turned out in droves for the show.
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"Us being two young women taking the alternative path from our careers — it's the kind of thing that you do root for," says Case.
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Enthusiasm is his most marked characteristic, and that perhaps makes it hard to imagine people who will envy, rather than root for, his success.
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But it's perfectly fine to root for incompetence on the White House's legislative agenda, given the damage that would do to so many citizens.
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I became a football fan around the same time, and I figured I should root for the Patriots as well, in New England solidarity.
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They are as bad and as good as each other, and so we are once again given permission to root for them to marry.
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That might give the investigation some credibility with Republicans inclined to support "their" team by making it less clear who they should root for.
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Having a figure we could all genuinely root for, however much we find ourselves resisting initially, would do dance music the world of good.
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It's impossible to not root for this bizarre misfit — even when he repeatedly lies, in his strange Eastern European accent, that he's from New Orleans.
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"To root for a country where blood is from, it just brings us all together and there&aposs a cause for it," Deo Marques said.
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Victor and Yuri have incredible chemistry on-screen; they're a couple you want to root for, because they're both so endearingly encouraged by each other.
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If Iron Fist made you root for Danny Rand to get clocked in the face, The Defenders is motivation to offer him an icepack afterward.
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"This is the sort of character that audiences will love and will root for and there will be points where they hate her," she says.
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And, of course, there are also many more fans who watch on television, listen on the radio, or root for their team in other ways.
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Each woman gets well-deserved screen time, enough so that we understand why they need the money, and also root for them to get it.
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The big picture: This has had a profound impact on modern sports fandom, affecting who we root for and how we consume and follow sports.
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While that bad-girl persona might have painted Harding as an xciting and rebellious star to root for, after the attack, it played against her.
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Cardi has Instagram-caption-worthy catchphrases for days, and we still root for her as the underdog that came out on top in women's rap.
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I know Neal, and the annoying thing about his success is that he's such a nice guy that you can't help but root for him.
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It takes absurd and somewhat disconcerting skill to make an audience root for Vernon (Todd Robert Anderson) or relish the company of Paul (Allan McLeod).
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Football, for example, is a game where you know who your team is by the age of 10, as you root for your home team.
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Under this scenario, residents along the U.S. East Coast need to root for Hurricane Jose to stay alive in order to protect them from Maria.
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The Indians aren't just good; they're smiley, young, and likeable, the kind of team you might root for even if you aren't an everyday fan.
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But now, Evans says enough is enough ... and he doesn't think he can continue to root for Tom unless he disavows the Commander in Chief.
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"If you didn't root for these kids the way all of us do, we wouldn't be where we're at -- either commercially or critically," Levy said.
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So, in this crucial moment, you'd hope their live show would put them back on top, give people a reason to root for them again.
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It's easy to root for someone whose slogan is literally "Love and Courage," and who can stay so positive in the face of open hostility.
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After proving just how much you've learned at Hogwarts, be sure to catch the light show at night to root for and represent your house.
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Can we have some areas where we can all just get together and root for our teams without having to get into a political thing?
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You start to root for Eleanor, despite her selfishness; for Chidi, despite his dallying; for Tahani, despite her narcissism; and for Jason, despite his folly.
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By contrast, getting the kids to appreciate old Anthrax songs the way I do is like getting them to root for my favorite football team.
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In episode 11 of season 3, entitled "Play On", the question of whether or not we're supposed to genuinely root for Cucious is extremely prominent.
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You can root for Jimmy and still see that Chuck is right to compare him to an alcoholic who won't admit he's got a problem.
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And according to the owner of his local wrestling association, some of Bean's students have even been known to come out and root for him.
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The optics would be terrible, but there isn't an NBA fan alive (who doesn't root for the Cavs) who wouldn't want to see this happen.
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As women, we've been raised by society to compete with rather than honor and root for each other, and all of that can be flipped.
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Though it might be a step down for Tatum to step onto the small screen, we can't help but root for him in the role.
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Often, talking about "Pose" led Murphy into reveries about "Glee," another show that had been designed to give queer kids characters they could root for.
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It's never a bad thing to root for love in the apocalypse and we kind of love Luke's little crush on the woman from Oceanside.
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As she wanders along the trail of her thoughts and readings, as you witness her forming the thing you are seeing, you root for her.
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Of course, he added, memories of Yankee Stadium might bring back very different emotions for fans like him, who root for the Boston Red Sox.
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We need to root for hope, joy and a misplaced sense of justice: an older man in the midst of an against-all-odds comeback.
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And yet, it's a struggle to root for a novel that relies on a woman for narrative structure even as it constantly undermines her humanity.
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But its characters are so earnest in the face of all these near-hallucinatory sequence of events that it's hard not to root for them.
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Judges who run court diversion programs meant to help defendants overcome issues like drug addiction often openly root for them to find a better life.
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We intended to root for the Red Sox, operating on the age-old and mindless theory that the enemy of our enemy was our friend.
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She knows how to have fun but also is a very supportive friend, so fans watching the show would be able to root for her.
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"Jumanji: The Next Level" (in theaters Friday) brings us back into the video game with a brand-new mission and new characters to root for.
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"But then he told us," Ms. Gotti said, "'Hey, if the Italians are known for nothing more, it was always to root for each other.'"
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What that news coverage doesn't capture is the mayhem, destruction, and loss of life, which is why people can simply root for their onscreen hero.
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There are many episodes where she bounces between love interests: There's Charles (Peter Hermann), her boss and the man we're supposed to root for; Josh (Nico Tortorella), who we're also supposed to root for but feel guilty about it because Charles is the obvious choice; and there's Jay (Aasif Mandvi), the new guy who knows her secret and thus lives with her in two worlds at once.
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And because of that, it's hard not to root for them once they do start to open up — even after they have sex in a cemetery.
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It takes three episodes, so almost three hours, for them to finally get into the groove and become people you can empathize with or root for.
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The game was politicized even before kickoff, with the New England Patriots' relationship with Trump prompting many to root for the Atlanta Falcons out of spite.
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And yet, when Lala rallies all the leading women of the show together to scream at their boyfriends collectively, you can't help but root for her.
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She's the one even non-Kardashian fans still kind of root for — in large part because, unlike her sisters, she actually seems to need our support.
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Often, there's one person in that love triangle whom we root for, the woman for whom we want to "win" the war for her love's heart.
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It's fun to root for the underdog, and even if the V30 proves imperfect, it'll certainly whet appetites for the next Google Pixel flagship to come.
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Even after all this time, I somehow believed that this family of spies that I've come to love and root for would make it out whole.
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We root for them from the very first moment, even as the differences that will eventually drive them apart splash across the screen in full view.
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Some 26% of Maré residents were born in Brazil's north-east, 62% identify as black or mixed-race and 60% root for the football team Flamengo.
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I want to be the next one to have a crack at it and I want to give the Norwegian people a fighter to root for.
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Last year, seven member churches on Whidbey Island teamed up to root for a bill designed to outlaw certain chemicals that were deemed hazardous to children.
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The first is gaining respect from those under her command, and the second is dealing with outsiders and critics who will root for her to fail.
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Still, Asian love interests on film are few and far between — which is why it's so refreshing to see Szeto as the guy we root for.
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She also leans into the absurdity of the movie's plot and convinces the audience to root for her for the first time in a long time.
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And it does so without dumbing anything down, or worse glorifying the excesses of the super-rich by offering "anti-heroes" for us to root for.
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With these less-than-stellar moments behind them, both Sansa and Daenerys have their eye on the prize — I just don't know who to root for.
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Windsor, Ontario, tends to root for the Detroit Red Wings, just across a river, rather than the Maple Leafs, a four-hour drive away in Toronto.
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We root for them when they escape, one by one, to New York City, where Jeannette attended college, married and found work as a magazine columnist.
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Had Charlotte or Renly ultimately prevailed, they might not have made the best rulers of their worlds but it was difficult not to root for them.
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If you don't know whom to root for since your country's not in it (we're looking at you, Americans) this handy guide is a must-read.
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It&aposs easy to root for them against the faceless mob of rich white men who exemplify the 2008 financial crash in all its ugly injustice.
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By the time they're yukking it up over an impromptu riverboat ride, it's hard not to root for the spaghetti-smeared kiss we know is coming.
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But it's not the simple fact of their affair that makes Ethan and Sam hard to root for; it's the fact that they make no sense.
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What monster couldn't root for him after the concussions and tears, when he'd given so much to wrestling and fought so hard to return to it?
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Dan brings out the best in Ingrid, and anytime she's around him, you root for them and the version of herself that she is with him.
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The bottom line: As the head of a leading health policy organization, of course I always root for health care to be as important as possible.
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When Cramer listened to Macy's and J.C. Penney's conference calls after the department store chains reported earnings, he wanted nothing more than to root for them.
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To the amusement of Lakers fans and the possible bemusement of those who root for other teams, James's wardrobe switch became a reality on Sunday night.
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We should all root for a comeuppance for those investors, who have helped to debase the entrepreneurial system that is so important to the global economy.
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Perhaps that was always Rodriguez's problem: He was too golden, too hard to root for because it seemed like there was no struggle before the triumph.
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It's easy to root for them even as it hurts to watch them stumble — a combination that makes Insecure an immediate force to be reckoned with.
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This gives art-loving audiences permission to root for the anti-heroic sheroes with a somewhat clean conscience, assured that the Met collection will go unharmed.
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Tuesday's episode, the Season 14 Quarterfinals, proved that viewers still love discovering major talent on the show, and continue to root for "America's Got Talent" overall.
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Golden Wind manages to really distill this aspect of the series by offering up a small crew of people the viewers really want to root for.
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It's hard to root for a protagonist who is focused only on his own narrow needs and seems indifferent to the broader issues his tale raises.
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You will root for Adunni as she attempts to escape her sorry, and often harrowing, lot, and the kind strangers who buoy her efforts (and spirits).
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Peter has been difficult to root for as of late, a far cry from the sweetheart that we first met on Hannah Brown's journey for love.
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Steve Jobs wasn't known for his humility, but his story about returning to Apple after having been pushed out is one we can all root for.
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But that's the nature of the Trump presidency: You root for the least-bad outcome, knowing that the best one is probably already out of reach.
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His older brother had previously made it to the national competition, and the whole family traveled from southern New Jersey to Washington to root for him.
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The power of Zelleweger's performance is that she makes us root for Garland, cheer for her, even as we know she's not going to make it.
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How do you navigate the tricky balance of creating powerful, empathetic characters we can root for while also knowing that they're doing a morally reprehensible thing?
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" Readers "will marvel at the intelligence and resilience of the Walls kids" and "root for them when they escape, one by one, to New York City.
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While the life and teachings of Christ are the root for some people's sexual hangups, shockingly little of it is explored in the realm of porn.
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And while we're also a divisive people—some of us root for the Giants, others the Eagles—we know it's us against the rest of the world.
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Celebrity relationships can be tragically short-lived, but there's one Hollywood couple we'll continue to root for 'til the end of time: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
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Moore and Adams may not be married anymore, but it's sweet that the singer can acknowledge his ex's big accomplishment and root for her from the sidelines.
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The source tells PEOPLE that Garner, 47, is concerned about Affleck but will always root for him to stay sober and be present in their kids' lives.
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But in show form, the Kardashian sisters feel more like characters, protagonists I want to root for in the years-long soap opera I just can't quit.
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It's nice knowing who to root for without much conscious extra thought; my wine-colored passport made the decision before I knew what the offside rule was.
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It's a well-known fact at this point that baseball fans are aging, and the sport needs to attract more people to root for their home teams.
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It's refreshing, for once, to have a clear winner and a clear loser, to be able to root for one team without feeling sorry for the other.
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He was a good guy, even when he seemed like a bad guy, and it was impossible not to root for him every step of the way.
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We also have The Handmaid's Tale's Madeline Brewer, who stars as Alice, to credit for giving viewers a vulnerable, funny, and well-rounded protagonist to root for.
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Instead of simply basking in the joy that is giving queer fans a romantic couple to root for, some hater had to go and stir ish up.
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With all respect to Jannard and RED, I will always root for the underdog, especially when it comes to trying new things in a stale product category.
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The question wasn't whether to root for Chuck or Bobby; instead, the question was figuring out a way to tear down the entire system they existed within.
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Unlike lobsters, which have caused overfishing concerns in the Gulf of Maine, there are myriad environmental reasons to root for bugs to enter the mainstream food supply.
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I'd argue that because Mario games are consistently good, there's nothing to champion, to root for, to see as the underdog spurred on only by some support.
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When he sings about love, it's "enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best" and make us root for two cartoon lions to make out.
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Fans all across the country rallied behind them because we like to root for the underdog and we feel joy when we see the underdogs finally win.
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Peru, the other team you'll want to root for (it toppled Chile, and qualified for the first time since 1982!) seems to have things a bit easier.
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But knowing that my character was a specific person let me root for her in a way I probably wouldn't have for a generic representation of myself.
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Plus, Chris has a crush on her super cute co-worker Maggie and you can't help but root for them as they awkwardly flirt with each other.
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I've long argued that liberals should root for the real journalists at Fox, who have the power to tell the truth about Trump to a conservative audience.
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Really, do you have to be a Knicks fan — or just an aficionado of basketball art — to root for a healthy, ball-handling Noah in New York?
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Some of the logjams and excessive costs have gotten so bad that they are now pushing San Francisco residents to root for a downturn, writes David Streitfeld.
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At first, Scott's affable charm makes Mr. Rooks easy to believe and root for, while Meester's brittle mean girl iciness makes her seem like a clear liar.
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I don't have a great feeling about this next fight, but I will definitely watch and root for her because we kind of have a friendship now.
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Whether you root for a championship contender, a hopeful underdog, or the Miami Dolphins, there are still ways to watch without getting gutted by a cable bill.
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"Sadly, the feel-good restaurant of the year — the place we all want to root for — just does not seem ready for prime time," the review said.
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The city is filled with transplants who root for their hometown team, and locals adopted other teams during the N.F.L.'s two-decade absence from the market.
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"My father would always bring home a perfectly formed big root for the Seder, with prepared horseradish hot off the production line to eat," Mr. Gold said.
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After watching so many of Goop's staffers open up about their personal challenges and traumas, it's hard not to root for them to find a little peace.
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They are the beating heart of Parasite, a collection of actors that confuse your moral instincts, making you root for them despite so many reasons not to.
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How does a film get us to root for women who we also know have intentionally and happily made their careers at a place like Fox News?
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They are a sweet couple whom you want to root for, and their conditions and circumstances have imbued them with personalities that some might perceive as quirky.
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On top of all that, Lyft is a much smaller company, which inherently makes it more sympathetic in a country that likes to root for the underdog.
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Bob Costas positively drips with loathing throughout at the very thought of the project, which alone kind of makes you root for Ebersol, McMahon, and, weirdly, Jesse Ventura.
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He recently told CNBC he was "blown away by how many people are hard-core, dedicated hockey fans" who until recently were forced to root for other teams.
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Like anyone else who's managed to stand by this show for over a decade, I'm romantic at heart and I genuinely always root for a good love story.
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No matter what Kufrin says about being "open" to these guys, it's hard to root for Garrett now, knowing that he double-tapped such problematic and hurtful memes.
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Ahead, we're rounding up Kufrin's suitors as they make themselves known, as well as any interesting details so you know exactly who to root for come May 28.
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"We're here because of Jimmer, to cheer him on," said Cathy DeDe, who drove three hours from Fredette's hometown of Glens Falls, New York, to root for him.
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WATCH: Five-Minute Skillet Black Bean Queso The best part is, you don't have to root for a specific team to get your hands on some free food.
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" Noah Garden, an MLB spokesperson, echoed her sentiment adding, "Everyone has their favorite team and favorite player, but free tacos are something all baseball fans can root for.
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Omid Abtahi's lovelorn cab driver Salim is still hopelessly in love with his fire-eyed Djinn, and their chemistry gives American Gods a romantic pairing to root for.
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This newly identified fatty taste was named "oleogustus" in the study, as the Latin term "oleo" is a root for oily or fatty and "gustus" refers to taste.
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It's easy to root for him, though, especially once he renews his Hollywood Chris cred by not forcing Elizabeth to consummate their marriage until she initiates physical intimacy.
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The city has two big college teams, and fans from all over the country have moved to the region and root for an array of teams from elsewhere.
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, characters are every shade of gray, as they betray and murder each other while still encouraging us to root for them.
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Kristina Hafoss, the finance minister and a Republican, complains that Danish ministers do not root for the Faroes in global negotiations; they won't defend whale-hunting, for example.
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So, I was very pleasantly surprised when the movie delivered on all of that, but also went a step forward: it gave me female characters to root for.
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That makes Billions, at times, a show where it's hard to find someone to "root" for, but the series is canny enough to know that's the whole point.
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But this season really has kept our main protagonists marching in place, and it's harder to invest in and root for characters who aren't really doing anything new.
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MMA fans like him and it's because of him that our fight will attract attention, but if the fans want to root for me, I certainly wouldn't mind.
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From the jump, Dexter, which began its eight-season run in October 2006, wants viewers to not only root for its leading man, but to lust after him.
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Due to the nature of the plot, they can't all succeed (unless Cersei, John Snow, and Daenerys suddenly decide sharing is caring), so who can we root for?
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It's not just treating symptoms, you would be pushing towards solving a problem at the root for everybody.. That would be a great thing to give money to.
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Production is pimping her out big time, but it's hard not to root for someone with such a huge voice compared to all the screeching and hiccupping babies.
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When CNBC's Jim Cramer listened to Macy's and J.C. Penney's conference calls after the department store chains reported earnings, he wanted nothing more than to root for them.
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"I can root for them," he said, referring to the Giants, "when they go to New York and play the Mets" in the wild-card game on Wednesday.
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Finally the dragons and Dothraki hordes were put into action, but somehow still paled in comparison to our inner battle of not knowing which side to root for.
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Too many people are invested in it — not just coaches and athletic directors, but also tens of millions of fans, who love to root for their favorite team.
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The move was expectedly met with scorn from San Diegans and mostly indifference from Angelinos, who already have a shitty football team to root for in the Rams.
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If you find yourself in the tiny, chopped-up wedges of the country that actually root for the Eagles or the Patriots, you might have something to love.
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However, I sure as hell can't root for Tyler to earn back Ali's love or trust, even if he's super sorry about being the catalyst for Holly's rage.
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His parents were from New York and rooted for the Yankees, as did Luhnow's older brother, Chris, who told him they could not root for the same team.
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But the silly, malaprop-prone Amy blossoms fully into her horridness, becoming an excellent foil for Jo, the pants-wearing hero we root for as obstacles pile up.
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Over the years, he said, with nothing more to root for but local minor league and junior teams, the game in Seattle has developed a deeply dedicated following.
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Without each other, the player without fan support and the fan without someone to root for and emulate, the game crumbles, even when there's no game to watch.
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You've got a team to root for, but it's not like you're in the middle of this and you're two years down the drain because of one tweet.
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Frances is a dancer who doesn't dance much and a friend who isn't always so friendly; you can't help root for her because of her charm and humor.
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In England, declare that by the end of your trip everyone in the group must choose a Premiere League soccer team to root for when you get home.
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Because I have no opinions about England or even soccer, really, I told him that I would simply root for the club with the most diverse fan base.
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You sort of root for his character, a Wall Street hotshot named Lockhart, but you also kind of hope he suffers, since he's a selfish, ill-mannered jerk.
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I usually root for Americans, but here I've got to go with Luvo Manyonga, who has one of the most incredible stories of anyone in track and field.
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In a film with no shortage of antiheroes to root for and/or against, Buddy stands out as the epitome of the bad dude you hate to love.
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I liken my U2 fandom at this point to being a fan of a sports team: if your favorite team has a shit season, you'll still root for them.
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The headstrong Brazilian driver, who died at age 34 in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, is not just effortlessly magnetic, but as a hero, uncomplicated to root for.
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They're supposed to be the characters that ground us — the ones we relate to, root for and fear for, even as the world around them gets wilder and weirder.
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Problematically compelling anti-heroes are a dime a dozen these days, but how are we ever supposed to root for Sebastian, the sexual assaulter and purveyor of revenge porn?
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He should also be the liberal choice for anyone tempted to cross over in an open primary, or just for liberals sitting at home wondering who to root for.
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With the US out of the World Cup this year, 23andMe offered to help users find which still-qualifying country they could still root for, based on their ancestry.
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It will also be his first time starring in a romance — and, hopefully, his work will bring a brand-new onscreen couple to root for into the cultural zeitgeist.
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He's a bad guy — he wants the artifact so he can use its power to make war — but it's hard not to root for him as he speeds away.
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So I don&apost understand why they would not root for the success of America because when you do it&aposs rooting for the success of all of us.
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"There is a good reason that companies within the Satellite & Space industry do not generally root for the failure of competitors," Quilty wrote in an analysis of the failure.
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While all of the niceties were indeed quite nice, I couldn't help but root for the dramatic storming outs and cringe-inducing missteps needed to spice up each episode.
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It also confirms that there will be no happily ever after for the patriarch and matriarch of this epic family love story that you can't help but root for.
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Ryu Spaeth: One of the central questions of this season is whether the show's heroes—or the characters we have come to root for, anyway—are fit to rule.
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It was a little over a year ago that Dolan battled a fan himself, sending an aggressive response to a critical email, telling him to root for the Nets.
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Finally, we help Patrick decide on a team to root for in the AAF, a new football league with the potential to be a developmental league for the NFL.
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It's hard not to root for Nina, even if this prickly, intriguingly difficult character becomes considerably less interesting as the story progresses and the dialogue veers toward the therapeutic.
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Even if Lily and her friends feel more like social justice avatars than fully realized characters, by the end of the film, it's hard not to root for them.
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But peddling beer is more broadly seen as a way to persuade fans who own high-definition televisions and comprehensive cable packages to come root for the home team.
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Jude, who possesses just enough badness that you really root for her — faeries don't lie, but she can, and she uses that — will have fans eager to follow her.
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What good is a supporter of Colin Kaepernick if they still tune in to root for their team to win every Sunday even with him out of the league?
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Both play up to their squeaky-clean pop idol personas, and it&aposs these two you root for most when the stakes rise and things get a little scarier.
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Set on Christmas Eve in Idyllic Small Town, Illinois, "Let It Snow" follows clean-cut youths who pair off in couples so adorable that you genuinely root for them.
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We're supposed to root for them despite their wrongdoings, and cheer when they ride off into the proverbial sunset as some karmic justice restores the brokenness they've left behind.
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FreeDarko, an avant-garde basketball blog that shut down in 2011, pioneered "liberated fandom": rather than pledge loyalty to a franchise, fans root for players, coaches and story arcs.
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If you like watching re-boots where the plot and characters are just a slightly different version of other shows you've enjoyed watching in the past, root for LSU.
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Guerrasio: I would think part of the trick with this movie is, yes, Howard is doing messed up things, but by the end you have to root for him.
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The one flag-waving fan in Qatar's maroon colors Sunday was a South Korean woman who had traveled from her homeland to root for Qatar, according to Qatari officials.
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In her quest to win over Josh's heart, Rebecca keeps doing such outrageous, self-centered, or otherwise desperate things that it tests how much you can root for her.
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Or they can root for the defenseman Chay Genoway: An undrafted long shot, he dreamed of making the N.H.L., and he did — for just a single game, in 2012.
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Yet while many of us root for a particular nation in the World Cup, our fandom during the tournament is often an expression of a complex web of allegiances.
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It certainly isn't the seemingly endless attacks upon our integrity, though I hear them and pay attention, because I too want to root for good causes and good stories.
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There is a fine origin story unfurled here, brimming with powerful fight sequences, instantly memorable characters, and a villain so mesmerizing, we may even want to root for him.
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Aza is a likable protagonist and readers will be caught up in the claustrophobic, narrowing spiral that is her existence and root for her to gain control of her life.
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Alas, HTC's sales continue to plummet, showing the inertia of a market that no longer trusts the Taiwanese brand, but that just makes me root for the U11 even more.
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Even if you root for Cleveland sports teams—who both overcame and blew 3-1 leads in the NBA Finals and World Series, respectively—it was still a pitiable stretch.
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"You're so blinded with racism that you don't even realize the decisions the president you root for is destroying the country you claim to love so much," Cardi B tweeted.
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One of my personal goals for the season is to lower my disgust for most of the men on this show and root for at least a few of them.
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Fans are already starting to root for their faves to get the gig, and after Colton eliminated Caelynn Miller-Keyes after Monday night's hometown dates, she's officially in the running.
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Which is hard to do considering the main character is a victim of domestic violence, who you inherently want to root for, but she has no personality outside of that.
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It's hard to not root for the man to earn some money to make ends meet while his MMA career remains in a purgatorial state until his suspension is lifted.
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I think people want to root for somebody who they think is going to improve and you see growth every week and you get to see their personality come through.
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No matter how fun it is to root for the underdog, it's still not too late to run to your friendly bookmaker and put down a punt on the Dubs.
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Welfare Queen is supposed to be a villain – a "heel," in wrestling nomenclature – but Tamee plays the role to such hilarious excess that the audience begins to root for her.
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Yes, the trailer looks apocalyptic in its explosions and will no doubt have plenty of worried-scientist-from-central-casting-who-knows-the-disaster-is-coming characters to root for.
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I like to blow-dry my hair and use a round brush, then I spray some of Sam McKnight's Easy-Up Do at the root for weightless lift and volume.
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I know we are not being encouraged to root for this outcome, but with all our guys and gals finally united on the same continent, I'm feeling a little claustrophobic.
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It's easy to root for its flawed characters as they screw up and try to improve their lives, and its pop culture references and jokes land quite a bit better.
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Saturday night's fight promises action and further implications either way, but it is hard not to root for the Miracle Man to get one more shot at the big time.
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But eventually, the man volunteered that he had been drinking one to two glasses of homemade tea brewed from licorice root for two weeks before his admission to the hospital.
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And most people watching the debates will do so not so much to root for their guy or girl in Trump or Clinton, but to root against the other side.
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Keeping us invested in the personal lives of celebrities requires them to create incredible highs so that their lows feel impactful, and we root for their success all over again.
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The intervening four years of court cases and false starts have given us a chance to miss Lil Wayne for the first time, to root for him like an underdog.
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It's been a slow news week, so in honor of these conference tournaments, we're letting you know which underdogs you should root for in the lead-up to Selection Sunday.
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In all fairness, there are plenty of valid reasons why people wouldn't love Marvel's bastard child, not least of which is that the character is always hard to root for.
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It's despicable for Maher, who is wealthy enough to have donated $1 million in 2012 to a super PAC, to root for an economic downturn in exchange for political gain.
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And so we root for her, even though she is also a ruthless one-per-center with no regard for anyone's point of view or well-being but her own.
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Some observers believe Las Vegas will have a hard time supporting a pro team because so many residents are from elsewhere and root for the teams they grew up with.
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While most marbles in the competitions are merely identified by their color, Jelle has taken to associating colors with specific nationalities, so you can easily root for your home country.
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But nearly every breezy installment, all of which begin streaming Friday, keeps trying to convince us that, despite her flaws, she's so charming that you have to root for her.
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On Friday, Conor Dougherty, a Times reporter and Giants fan, asked readers to consider a touchy question: Was it even possible for a Giants fan to root for the Dodgers?
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And Baywatch's lack of conviction in either direction results in a cast characters who, at their worst, feel like flippant reflections of the originals, and are impossible to root for.
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I'm not just saying that because the Turtles earnestly root for the New York Knicks, whose combined record since the 2014 reboot of the franchise is a sad 49-115.
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The past week has seen some people in India and Pakistan openly root for war, while others have urged the country's leaders to find a way to end the crisis.
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I think there's a way for characters to be relatable, and you can sympathize with them, but at the same time root for them to get what's coming to them.
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Unfortunately, while it's impossible not to root for Zelda, MacDonald's creative choices occasionally blur the lines between adult and Y.A. fiction, which distracts from the narrative and undermines his efforts.
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The primary cast — Song Kang-ho, Jang Hye-jin, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam — delivers performances that make you question morality and root for them despite their shameful scheme.
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Many older Raiders fans, he said, used to root for the Rams but jumped ship because the Raiders performed better when they arrived in Los Angeles for the 1982 season.
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Conservative activists who hosted a viewing party to root for Trump on election night were behind an event for his inauguration in the huge Central Telegraph building in downtown Moscow.
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The writers ask viewers whether it's healthy to root for violence, even in a work of fiction, and then answer their own question in a chilling final line of dialogue.
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"Don't let the world make you feel like there's only one spot at the table, or that you can't root for other women if you want it for yourself," she said.
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If there is something like the #MeToo movement now, you root for them, you want them to bring to justice these terrible harassers, these people who do all these terrible things.
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Tim Hagerty should know, he literally wrote the book on the subject: Root for the Home Team: Minor League Baseball's Most Off-the-Wall Team Names and the Stories Behind Them.
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There needs to be someone in the story that the audience can get behind and root for through all of this blood-soaked madness, and that's where Betty Gilpin comes in.
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"There are a lot of basketball fans who root for players and not necessarily for teams," said Juliet Litman, the managing editor of The Ringer, a sports and pop culture website.
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I didn't need to see their breakup in order to root for Kufrin — and I would have loved to see Luyendyk simply apologize, move on, and stay quiet on social media.
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Dylan, a dyed-in-the-wool romantic, has almost no hard edges — how do you make someone whose romantic idealism appears almost crippling also a character people want to root for?
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One way that the show made Joe into someone to root for (at least, in some scenes) was by adding Paco (Luca Padovan), a neighbor kid who looks up to Joe.
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Although it's deeply hydrating, the real magic is in how this mask buffs away product buildup at the root for a deep clean on even your most product-heavy hair day.
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The Pro-Am also highlighted how the competitive Fortnite community now has a sizeable roster of well-known superstars to root for, many of whom were virtually unknown a year ago.
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But we should still all root for these efforts, because ultimately whether the poor get help may depend less on Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders than on Republicans at every level.
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The fictional Pearson family at the center of the show often root for the Pittsburgh Steelers, with Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia'a characters even traveling last season to Pittsburgh's Heinz Field.
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Strike and Robin are deeply likable characters, and it's easy to root for them as they make sense of things for us, imposing order onto the chaos of the everyday world.
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With Three Houses, Intelligent Systems has shaped the entire game around this feeling of invested spectatorship, causing you to root for characters more than ever, both on and off the battlefield.
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" In response, Cardi said, "You're so blinded with racism that you don't even realize the decisions the president you root for is destroying the country you claim to love so much.
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Biles and Shaq weren't the only stars at the game — Atlanta fans T.I. and Usher snagged tickets while Boston's own Mark Wahlberg was on-hand to root for his favorite Patriots.
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Its terrorists are always fronts for domestic antagonists that no one could really root for: corrupt, power-crazed high-ups in America's military-industrial complex who may also be undercover Nazis.
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Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the home team, If they don't win it's a shame.
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ST. PAUL — A David and Goliath story generally requires a David to root for, but neither side competing for the M.L.S. expansion franchise in Minnesota resembled a boy with a slingshot.
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Rose—mouthy, brash, unpredictable—is hard to deal with, but you root for her, as she tries various medications, struggles with relationships, and comes to terms with her diagnosis as bipolar.
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They're a familiar but effective narrative and visual device, weary but determined travelers whose progress we root for as they're hoisted on and off ships and trucked across deserts and mountains.
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Yet the 110,000-plus fans in Happy Valley were compelled to root for Michigan, whose fourth-quarter touchdown secured a 20-17 victory that improved its record to 4-1. Why?
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Highs: The two monster hunting brothers at the center of this drama are easy to root for, bring levity to an at times dark premise and not bad to look at.
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So, for example, if you're a U.N.C. fan and the Tar Heels get knocked out of the tournament, the best way to support your team is to (gasp) root for Duke.
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As someone who voted enthusiastically for him the first time around, I am sorry to say I wish that there were another viable candidate to root for in the November election.
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On one hand, Billy Crudup left Mary-Louise Parker for Claire Danes when Parker was seven months pregnant, so I am inclined to root for Parker in all of her endeavors.
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There's not a single person to root for in the Red Bull Theater's production of "The Government Inspector," Nikolai Gogol's rollicking 19th-century satire of bad behavior in the Russian provinces.
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Game of Thrones On this week's episode of "Game of Thrones," for the first time, we were faced with a battle in which it was possible to root for both sides.
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Trainer: Todd Pletcher Jockey: John Velazquez Odds: 4-5 Drape: I always root for the Derby winner, but this one looks a bit like the barn's 2010 Derby champion, Super Saver.
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"I don't think the rivalry between the teams was so bad that people wouldn't root for the Chiefs," said Randy Karraker, a talk-show host on 101 ESPN in St. Louis.
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It asks only for us to accept that "these people are people," while giving us the saintly to root for and the barbarous to deplore — and then congratulating us for caring.
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But playing off the earnestness that made him the perfect fit for Dawson Leery, he gets you to root for his comic characters, because he seems to be trying so hard.
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There's so little genuine, starry eyed you-had-me-at-hello romance in American movies today that when a new love story pops up, it's hard not to root for it.
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Starring in the State Farms ads, you can see some of the personality come through, and he's just someone fans feel they can connect with and they want to root for.
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While there are some heartfelt moments for the character, and you do root for them, season two could certainly have survived, and maybe even flowed a bit better, without their presence.
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We should all root for self-driving car technology to be done right because too many people die in traffic crashes every day, and too many underserved communities stand to benefit.
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Yes, it's great to root for the honorable guy with cat eyes, but for the love of the old gods, take a lesson in not telling hard truths for a minute.
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The result has been a hero who hasn't always been easy to root for, a situation that's been further underscored by his ongoing fight against a villain who's much more charismatic.
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L.A. Lakers star Metta World Peace says he's HAPPY to be sharing the city with a NFL team -- but says there's only ONE WAY he would ever root for the Rams.
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It's tremendously easy to root for our superheroes, because the lines of good and evil are so clear-cut, and there aren't any rules — besides good versus evil — that apply to them.
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An American soccer star is attracting criticism – from fans and former teammates alike -- for appearing in a Wells Fargo ad that encourages U.S. fans to root for Mexico in the World Cup.
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So I built up this context of hazing and the establishment and these rules that are very diminishing, and I knew instinctively the audience would rebel against it and root for her.
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Whether you are filling out a Westminster bracket or just picking a pooch to root for, here are eight dogs you should keep your eye on when the show airs on Feb.
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So if Jackson and Maggie can find a way to help each other be the best people and doctors and, in Jackson's case, parent, I think the audience will root for them.
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But the movie is far from didactic, opting instead for a fly-on-the-wall approach that allows viewers to naturally connect with, root for, and find inspiration in its charismatic subjects.
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Even if you know nothing about football, you can comment on the commercials, make fun of referees, or just pick a team to root for to make the time pass by faster.
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But is the pressure to root for a piece of art that represents a social "good," in this case Captain Marvel bucking a history of a lack of representation, a real fear?
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LeBron James has officially put Kid Ink's Clippers fandom on life support ... 'cause the L.A. rapper tells TMZ Sports he'd root for King James' Lakers in a playoff series with the Clippers!!
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The whole situation could have been designed in a lab to encourage fans to root for a romance between the two — or, in fandom parlance, to ship them — and ship they did.
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And as the helmeted warrior pushes his way through a flank of militia to deal with the pesky thing once and for all, you can't help but root for him a little.
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You should root for Holy Cross to get Carmody to the NCAA Tournament under the strangest of circumstances, and also because he kind of screwed over Northwestern with the win over Bucknell.
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Even despite all of this—the wholesale disregard, the manhandling, the organization openly spitting in his eye literally minutes after it all happened—Oakley says he will still root for the Knicks.
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From the moment they step inside, Don't Breathe ramps up the intensity and the shock value until it's hard not to root for the invaders to at least escape with their lives.
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That was something I hadn't understood was necessary to root for this character, who is kind of a crummy friend: You take Rodrick and Manny away, and now Greg's just a jerk.
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Shade raises a perturbing question: Do you root for the planet-skipping alien who snatched a teenage girl's body or sympathize with the trauma-inducing bully who terrorized her friends and family?
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The good news for diehard Kings fans, and for those who simply root for the City of Sacramento, is that the perpetual Boogie trade rumors may be coming to a halting screech.
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You do root for them in a way because — and this is by no means a justification of what they do and who they are — they all come from very poor countries.
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To root for a Philly team is to always expect success, to be devastated — aggrieved, even — in the face of failure, and to insist that the world know exactly how you feel.
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But the T-Birds still spend all three(!) hours of the musical glorifying the kind of machismo that can turn teen boys into nightmares — and we're still supposed to root for them.
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At that point, Yankee Stadium was partying, big time, and I was trying to stick to my good sportsmanship resolutions: Root for your team, groan when things go wrong, enjoy the game.
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Instead of rooting for the candidate with the most money, let&aposs root for a candidate with the courage to respect all their constituents, even those of us who&aposve sold sex.
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Why do you think the Super Bowl is such a widely-viewed—and discussed—event, even among casual football fans who may not even root for either team during the regular season?
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It's hard to enjoy the action when you witness its emotional cost, but once Sook-hee starts slashing goons from atop motorcycles, it's equally impossible to root for the violence to stop.
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In many ways, the stars to root for on Below Deck and Below Deck: Mediterranean, as far as I'm concerned, are not the captains, or even, for the most part, the men.
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Clarke is charming and easy to root for, even saddled with elf shoes and slim material, and Yeoh and Thompson enliven a movie that frequently feels as if it's drifting between interludes.
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Vivian is such a well-developed main character, true to herself, and so easy to root for as she opens her heart to love (and sex!) for the first time in years.
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When the movie begins, it's easy to surmise the audience is expected to identify with, and root for, McDormand's grieving mother, who puts up the billboards demanding justice for her murdered daughter.
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I've found Philip and Elizabeth's relationship ridiculously compelling since the first episode, and even though I shouldn't, I still root for them, despite everything; their conversation, when he chose Elizabeth, felt cathartic.
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That's what makes Barry as tragic as he is: You might feel inclined to root for him, but he'll never change, and neither will the monstrous, destructive system he helps to maintain.
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The Oxford comma is probably the most divisive punctuation mark in the English language: academics root for it, journalists are torn over it, and the general public has some strong feelings about it.
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Already a difficult guy to root for given his alleged involvement in a rape cover-up in college, Lewan's meathead tendencies cause a problem on the field from time to time as well.
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Still more disturbing is just how much chemistry Burke and Swinton Byrne share in this scene, a rapport that makes us want to root for them, even as we know it's ultimately doomed.
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The show is just now scratching the surface of a solid reason to root for this couple, aside from fans who've long thought of Jon and Daenerys as the couple that was promised.
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"As long as the movie remains true to the spirit of the games and gives us a heroine we can look up to and root for, that's good enough for me," McGuire said.
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First published in 100 Days in Appalachia, Kiger's intimate images make it hard for viewers not to root for these men and this program to succeed where conventional, clinical, ways have not. —L.
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Pop culture about sports gives non-sports fanatics a chance to experience the triumphs and tragedies built into each and every game — and give us a whole slate of characters to root for.
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In addition to those now-familiar faces and big names like Ninja, the Fortnite community has a growing roster of competitive players from around the world that viewers can follow and root for.
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Americans want to watch the best, to root for the best, to have the best, and Garber et al can tell them MLS will be one of the best with a straight face.
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But, you gotta hear the dagger he inserts into Clip City's heart when we ask who he'd root for in a scenario where LeBron has the ball in closing time against the Clippers.
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Muniz has proven he has the fight and drive to compete — and he's likely to get the lion's share of votes from Scott fans who are looking for someone new to root for.
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If an anti-hero is an inherently flawed, even immoral character that you root for nonetheless, Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) is an anti-hero—but of a very different kind than his predecessor.
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How do you root for the sweet shy geek to get the hot girl to notice him when shy geeks are joining the incels because they can't get hot girls to notice them?
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You can draw a clear line from Gregory House, Walter White, Dexter Morgan, and Jax Teller through to Tony Soprano, who alternately made viewers root for and against him, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
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Of course fans like to root for dynasties, and Golden State is likely to become even more of a must-see attraction when they visit other cities than they were in 2015-16.
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But in a dim and distant way I gently root for James's absence so that I can proceed to the other side of the years I have left, get to what happens next.
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The robot's whole effect is designed to make you want to root for it, even though you know deep down that you could get the answer faster by just pulling out your phone.
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That future may be a little far off in the distance (and a little Black Mirror-esque), but a future that includes more pleasure for everyone is one that we can root for.
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The receptionist, Freya, who readers will grow to love and root for — she's waffling over going to college, flummoxed by boys — treats Dan with a desk clerk's customary solicitousness, even a mild longing.
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No matter which team we root for — whether for the Los Angeles Dodgers or the Houston Astros or the New England Patriots or Philadelphia Eagles — we cheer for team America first and foremost.
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In "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," a playfully arch and unsettling film based on Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, there's nobody obvious to root for; everyone is dour, foolish, phony or deranged.
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Teen audiences were thrilled to have an onscreen queer couples to root for: Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss) and Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer), and cheerleaders Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera) and Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris).
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But at the end of the day, we're asked to either favor Trump or root for Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden or Mayor Pete, who oppose us on basically everything.
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And that never feels forced, or wrong, or frustrating; instead, I wish I could point to more teen movies of the era that had such an easy pair for us to root for.
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And since reality TV producers have become fairly committed to casting gay or lesbian competitors in each season, our kids have come to know, and root for, a healthy number of LGBTQ contestants.
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In this case, is it O.K. to fill out brackets, root for winners and perhaps invest financially in programs that run afoul of rules, knowing what we know while, perhaps reasonably, suspecting worse?
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To have her not just flatten the Lannister army but kill some fan favorite characters who've enjoyed their own epic heroic arcs over the seasons would make her unavoidably harder to root for.
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If I'm watching a film where two people are in love, for example, I root for them to have sex—though in my personal life, I don't relate sex with love at all.
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