empathy

Example Sentences

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Most people react in similarly positive ways, expressing empathy or, my personal favorite, commiserating with me over their own nebulous medical conditions.

From Slate • May 23, 2026

Is it easier to find the empathy and humanity in playing a character desperate to attain the power than someone already holding it, like an Elon Musk or a Jeff Bezos?

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Lindstrom’s work aimed to inspire empathy and humanize those suffering in the margins of society, but it also catalyzed policy change.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026

A woman who wished not to be named told me that she liked Catherine because the princess had not shown "fake empathy", of the kind associated with celebrities, but "real empathy".

From BBC • May 14, 2026

In their living room, at the empathy box, Iran swiftly snapped the switch, her face animated with growing gladness; it lit her up like a rising new crescent of moon.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick