empathize

It’s a moral issue that many regular people can empathize with, in part because we are too always being watched now.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

If I empathize enough with the person that I’m playing, they walk differently, they talk differently, they cry differently, they sleep differently, they wake up differently, and that’s just so much more rewarding for me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

I’m not sure what is motivating you to move so frequently, but I can empathize.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

I don’t know if I empathize with them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Not only will the students be able to empathize with Gerda’s feelings of persecution and loss, but I hope they’ll be able to understand how Anne Frank must have felt.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

He empathizes with people born in the 1940s who feel irrelevant, since even 20-year-olds now baffle him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

“The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” shouldn’t work because it empathizes with the man who will eventually become a genodicial villain.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2023

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

Through the poignant story, in which Koh explores complicated familial relationships, she works through her experiences, empathizes with those who hurt her and lets go of the negative emotions that haunted her for years.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

Defenseman John Carlson, who was out from Dec. 23-March 23 after taking a slap shot to the face, empathizes with Backstrom trying to ramp up again after the surgery.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

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

Department lawyers in several offices told The Wall Street Journal they empathized with Julie Le, a Department of Homeland Security attorney who was detailed to the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis to bolster staffing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

The group continued: "Worst of all, the series presents a convicted murderer as an innocent man that should be empathized with."

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

Compared with the shaggy, likable Kong, who, with the ability to emote, is a character audiences have always empathized with, Godzilla is “a little bit more complicated to pull off,” according to the filmmaker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

She’d empathized with him, and even said she sometimes heard things coming from the jungle too.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Still, there’s no empathizing with hapless, clueless Joe when he whines, “Do you really think the power is with the police?”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025

She praised him for empathizing with parents, teachers, coaches, administrators and alumni.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

Of course, nothing beats a personal interaction, but short of that, the phone is where the brunt of our job is done, inquiring, schmoozing, probing, empathizing.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 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