How to Use empathy in a Sentence
empathy
noun
- He felt great empathy with the poor.
- His months spent researching prison life gave him greater empathy towards convicts.
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It’s about whoever has a heart and has values and has empathy for others.
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Leila Cobo,
Billboard,
8 Dec. 2022
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Some cards showcase cute Christmas drawings, and many express empathy for Dowling’s holiday grief.
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Sydney Page,
Washington Post,
10 Dec. 2022
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But therapists have found that couples who clearly express their appreciation and empathy for one another have longer lasting unions.
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Aditi Shrikant,
CNBC,
16 Oct. 2024
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Her leadership is characterized by empathy, courage and her natural ability to make others feel welcome and valued.
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Marcus Reichley,
The Arizona Republic,
21 Oct. 2024
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My college professor, Barbara Ward, stressed the importance of teaching kindness and empathy.
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Mary Colurso | [email protected],
al,
12 Dec. 2022
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Females scored higher on cognitive empathy than males in every single country in the experiment, and in 36 of them, women received much higher scores than men.
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Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
28 Dec. 2022
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In the past, there has been more empathy across the aisles.
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Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
30 Aug. 2023
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Many of the people who make the rules lack the empathy to run this place.
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Daniel White,
Orlando Sentinel,
10 Aug. 2024
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And yet the song is a thing of beauty, rich with empathy.
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Scott Stroud,
Star Tribune,
28 Jan. 2021
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It would also be linked to the degree of empathy in the man.
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Diana Gitig,
Ars Technica,
4 Mar. 2018
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Kindness comes first, and empathy is the key to growth.
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Steve Schering,
chicagotribune.com,
11 Mar. 2021
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Asha, the hero of the kingdom Rosas, is a conduit for empathy.
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Ken Makin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Nov. 2023
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Take a minute to have a little empathy and think about the receiver of the care.
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Veronica Mitchell,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
16 May 2018
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That is, a truly good thrill comes from a place of empathy.
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Seth Combs Writer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Aug. 2020
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That has a lot to do with the company’s strong sense of empathy.
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Celeste Mora,
Quartz at Work,
20 Aug. 2020
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Barham felt like the empathy of Adeem’s writing was enough to sway them.
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Jon Freeman,
Rolling Stone,
22 Dec. 2022
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And what that told me is this is a question about empathy.
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cleveland,
17 Apr. 2021
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Of course, this new study does more than find meager empathy for the out-group.
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Wired,
9 Nov. 2019
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There wouldn’t be much empathy here if the answer weren’t the latter.
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Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Apr. 2022
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That means that, for me, this is a film defined by empathy.
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Andy Meek,
BGR,
24 Oct. 2022
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For all of its seeming perks, empathy can be a hard sell.
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Washington Post,
28 Feb. 2022
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But the empathy, Bosh wrote in his blog, also was because of style of play.
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Ira Winderman,
sun-sentinel.com,
17 Apr. 2021
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All those people who now have jobs, that's a lot of empathy.
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Fox News,
11 Sep. 2018
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If there was any sort of empathy, the shutdown would have ended a long time ago.
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Celeste Katz,
Glamour,
11 Jan. 2019
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However, don’t be quick to lump empathy in with the rest.
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Byorianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2023
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The isolation, the anxiety, the lack of empathy — all of it just part of a new normal.
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Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
8 Oct. 2023
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Somebody’s out there that cares about me, has empathy for me.
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Brett Weiss,
star-telegram,
21 June 2018
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Peter displays empathy and kindness at the end of the film, which helps him with his grief.
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Common Sense Media,
Washington Post,
10 Nov. 2023
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