animate

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The show, a touring tutorial he created and performs solo, allows Page the opportunity to animate with barnstorming crackle a rogue’s gallery of Shakespearean scoundrels.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

Such outcomes would not resolve the broader debates that animate these cases.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

The “richest body of historically specific written evidence” concerning fears of the animate dead in the Middle Ages comes from 12th-century England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

The static from the carpet gave them a shock, presumably, and it helped animate his monster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

Later, the black movement’s vitality extended to animate the liberation movements of women, the elderly, the physically disabled, and the homosexual.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez