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- verb Present participle of
empathise .
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Examples
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The rating of 'brain sex' seems to be based on Simon Baron-Cohen's theory that males and females are likely to differ in skills he calls empathising and systemising.
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The rating of 'brain sex' seems to be based on Simon Baron-Cohen's theory that males and females are likely to differ in skills he calls empathising and systemising.
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Cameron was "empathising" when he claimed he was "terrified" of finding a good state school.
New Statesman 2010
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A spokesman for Bank of Ireland said the bank was "empathising" with customers who have had to cut their own spending.
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One almost ends up empathising with the farmer, sitting in abject poverty in a landscape destroyed by war, who spots Harry wandering dazed from a helicopter, before grabbing him shouting, How much they give me for you?
Grace Dent's TV OD: The Taking Of Prince Harry Grace Dent 2010
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Many, many people want to hear what you have to say and are here, silently empathising with you.
It’s My Story And I’ll Cry If I Want To | Her Bad Mother 2009
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One reader, empathising, reveals that she grew up with the former PM.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Hopefully, you end up empathising with them, because their social prospects are impossible, really.
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As well as empathising, I laughed out loud to read this:
Media Maxine 2009
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Men instinctively like the colour blue and are bad at coping with pain, we are told, while women cannot tell jokes but are innately superior at empathising with other people.
Male and female ability differences down to socialisation, not genetics 2010
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