empathize

It’s easy to empathize with his need to prove he can make a big-budget crowd-pleaser.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

We’d have far fewer ill-equipped managers and unhappy employees if people were more honest with themselves about whether they have the desire or ability to empathize with others and invest in their career growth.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

It is not difficult to empathize with someone who has been wronged, or to root for him or her when reprisals are made.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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

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

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

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

They empathized with the educators and support staff seeking better wages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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

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

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

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

Studies show that empathizing with animals influences human behavior and can motivate people to take action to protect them.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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

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