resonate

verb

1. To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.

   “The books on top of the piano resonate when he plays certain notes.”

2. (figuratively)To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.

   “His words resonated with the crowd.”

   “Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors.”

   ““The control of women and babies has been a feature of every repressive regime on the planet,” wrote Margaret Atwood earlier this year, on why her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale is resonating so forcefully in the age of Trump.”

   “The Letters' account of Dolghurucki's hopeless entanglement in the politics of the imperial accession resonated with her readers, and Vigor's story becomes a minor set piece of Russian histories in the eighteenth century.”

3. (figuratively)To agree or sympathise, not necessarily perfectly, usually with an emotion, an attitude, or an intellectual position.

   “1976 Professor Rosenblith: U.S. DEPARTMENT of Health, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE DHEW Publication No. (NIH) 76-1138 Proceedings of Conferences I think the tone of concern, both within the outer and the inner circle here,. . . is obviously something that I resonate with. We're dealing with problems in decision-making and uncertainty...”

   “1989 J. Giles Milhaven: Good Anger. →ISBN Their readers certainly gain if they are ready to understand and feel with them in their poetry. When I read their text, I gain. I resonate with their wrath. I taste some of their sore satisfaction. I join respectfully the murderous fury they feel and express at brutal abuse... On the face of it, it is damn' peculiar. We approve and resonate with this individual's passion to get revenge. We would disapprove and be horrified by their actual getting it.”

   “1997 Linda Hogan: Conversations with American novelists / ed Kay Bonetti et al. →ISBN I walk every day, out around there, but I don't have the same connection to it that I do to the land in Oklahoma. I always say it's as if Oklahoma was my home before I was born. I feel a profound sense of connection to that place. The land that I resonate with is there.”

   “1997 Paths of Faithfulness Ed. Carol Ochs. →ISBN While I resonate with this mystical process — often even yearn for it, trying bits of it on my own — it's not so easy for me. I am not a mystic. I do not feel capable of such mystical pursuits.”