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How to use the word empathize in a Sentence?

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I could empathize with them, and I share their convictions and passions, i was very happy to receive that proposal and to commit to advancing it.

Ralph Regenvanu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Perhaps this is a time where you empathize with him or her, building a little bit of a trust cushion.

Olivia Jaras

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I cannot even imagine how painful it is to be a Ukrainian right now, i try to sympathize and try to empathize. It’s difficult. My country is not at war, and my family is not hiding themselves in the subways of the capital of my nation.

President Andrew Parsons

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We take our responsibility for reviewing these vaccines very seriously because we're parents as well, and in looking over the data, I think parents can feel reassured that we have set a standard by which we feel that if something does not meet that standard, we can't proceed forward, for those parents who really feel this, we empathize with them, because I suspect that they're not only concerned about the current situation, even though there's a drop in cases, but they're concerned about future variants that could potentially come along, and that's how we're thinking as well. So this was not based on the dropping number of cases, because it's still a staggering number of cases each day that we're having.

Peter Marks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I certainly appreciate any time students raise their voices to be heard.... I understand and I empathize with where they are, but I think we also are very focused on making sure we keep schools open.

David Banks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Only Kelly Dodd would post screenshots of her own texts that make her look wildly immature, i guess that’s what being bitter is like, and I tried to empathize with her, as you can see.

Sean Windham-Burke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a caregiver, I think one of the challenges is recognizing that we can not use the same skills and interpersonal dynamics that we came to rely on in our relationship with the person with LBD, we have to develop new ones because you can not reason with somebody who is having a hallucination or delusion. Sometimes you have to more step into their reality and empathize( and) learn a new way to offer assistance without them feeling like they're being treated like a child.

Angela Taylor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I couldn't empathize with the premise that a woman born in 1982 was discriminated against when she was growing up, many of the situations seem unrealistic or very, very rare.

Kim Won-koo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

My former governor( Vice President Mike Pence) is going to be visiting your state soon, i think Chasten Buttigieg in 2018 already know how I feel. It helps me empathize with Chasten Buttigieg in 2018 on that whole Lindsey Graham thing.

Chasten Buttigieg in 2018

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There's a temptation, I suspect, to take the money and run, i can certainly empathize with the temptation to not play ball. ... I just think that's a ludicrous burden to put on the individual.

Arthur Caplan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My wife is allergic to cat hair, we're going to stay a dog family, but I certainly empathize with the kittens.

Jeff Merkley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I empathize with the women now coming forward and hope justice is served.

Oprah Winfrey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I absolutely condemn any suggestion or act of non-consensual touching in any form, as well as disassociation as a coping mechanism for abuse of any kind, i understand and empathize with the parents' and groups' concerns regarding the message the movie may impart.

Max Botkin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The long-running Democratic strategy has been to say, 'We empathize with people like you and the Republicans are out for the rich.' I don't see any reason why you would change strategies.

Matt Grossmann

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The long-running Democratic strategy has been to say,' We empathize with people like you and the Republicans are out for the rich.' I don't see any reason why you would change strategies, the unions may enjoy running against a developer.

Matt Grossmann

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

No one can really empathize— because I wouldn’t want people to feel the way I feel, i just want greater awareness of this disease and to prevent any more people suffering the way Lucy and I did.

Liam Crossley

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I empathize with the many faculty members, staffers, students and parents of students who signed petitions, sent emails and letters, and organized to ban guns from campus and especially classrooms, as a professor, I understand the deep concerns raised by so many. However, as president, I have an obligation to uphold the law.

Texas President Greg Fenves

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

People are able to empathize, communicate and talk honestly across racial lines much better than they did five years ago, and certainly 10 years ago and 20 years ago.

Mark Naison

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To me, that's what made them iconic — that they had touched on the pulse of something that, in turn, harmonized... the human sensibility and allowed us to empathize beyond our own personal experience.

Saul Williams

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's a symbol that is just so powerful, so visceral because of where it comes from and what it means, i feel compelled to love my brothers and sister and to empathize with them when they say 'This is what this means. This is what it communicates.' The thing that needs to come down.

Mike Cosper

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We can learn on paper and on screen, but the ability to understand, not just learn, happens when we are together and able to empathize.

Gloria Steinem

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I did feel like being a paparazzi for a second. I do empathize with their plight.

Robert Pattinson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are of course concerned and empathize with those who will lose their employment, this is a private sector decision in a highly competitive industry and I don't think it has broader implications.

Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

His character can be ... not likeable, selfish, but I need somebody that people can really relate to, not judge but to empathize (with).

Michael Keaton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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