empathize
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We should want them to empathize with marginalized groups, including abuse victims and children.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
“We empathize with these investors,” Schwab said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
It’s integral to Marie Antoinette’s tragedy, to making the viewer empathize with a girl who had no choice but to get in over her head.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
“I like Instagrams where people are putting themselves out there and maybe they’re not the best at it, and I both find it funny but I do also empathize with them, too, and support them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
It amazed me how I could empathize not only with Anne Frank, but also with a Holocaust survivor.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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But she said the Fair Plan deeply empathizes with wildfire survivors and is committed to handling each claim with compassion, integrity and full compliance with all laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Martin O'Malley, the commissioner of the Social Security Administration, empathizes all too well with the human suffering that necessitates the program’s existence.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
She empathizes with Denitra’s predicament, but how can she combat a system that made her an exception by the luck of the educational draw?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Park, who loves “Crazy Rich Asians,” empathizes with the burden to represent everybody.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
“Germany, which was reunified 33 years ago, is a country that understands and empathizes with the issues surrounding the Korean Peninsula,” Yoon said.
From Washington Times ● May 21, 2023
I especially empathized in these moments with the men whose sentences put them in the category of “long-termers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, said she empathized with the Cuban people but took issue with her Jamaican counterpart's remarks.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
For the first time, I empathized with her desperation.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025
“She empathized enormously with the families of the strikers,” says Buffett, “but with Kay, the newspaper totally came first, it was a sacred trust.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
So it seemed to Charles “that an innate feeling must have told him that the pretended crying of his nurse expressed grief” and that he empathized with her.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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If we could stop thinking in such narrow definitions of time, Thien intimates, we would be capable of empathizing and understanding that even our most shattering experiences do not separate us from others.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
She praised him for empathizing with parents, teachers, coaches, administrators and alumni.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Chauvin’s sentencing judge, empathizing with him over his isolation in state prison, expressed optimism that he would fare better with fewer restrictions as a federal inmate.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
People spent time empathizing with these women before they became plaintiffs bringing legal action against their former boss, something that doesn't typically happen in celebrity lawsuits.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2023
In other words, if I smile and you see me and smile in response — even a microsmile that takes no more than several milliseconds — it’s not just you imitating or empathizing with me.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 7
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"The Freedom Writers Diary" and "Strength, Courage, and Wisdom"
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"The Interlopers" and "An Interview with the King of Terror"
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