Example Sentences

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Language learning can help us to have “intercultural agility”: the ability to engage empathically with people who have very different experiences from our own.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Hummel draws her sympathetically, empathically, even as she proves through Edith’s life trajectory that other choices were possible.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024

Central defender Tiago Djalo finished empathically from Renato Sanches’ right-wing cross to put Lille ahead in the 27th minute.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2021

And as a human being, you respond empathically.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2018

“I feel like my job is just to sort of empathically and viscerally find a way into these people,” Mr. Strong told The Washington Times of his character.

From Washington Times • Dec. 22, 2015