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animate

[an-uh-meyt, an-uh-mit] / ˈæn əˌmeɪt, ˈæn ə mɪt /




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Another used A.I. to animate a photo of Walters, the digital replica lamenting his sentence of “death by incarceration.”

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

“What’s important is that it doesn’t replace the physical play. You want the technology to animate the player and to be shareable. If the Smart Play technology achieves that, it’ll be very sustainable.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

They just needed to submit photographs of themselves and their loved ones, and AI would then animate the material following specific prompts.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

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

He pantomimes the action with both hands, grunting to animate it further.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

“Their hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their AI products — a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 2, 2026

AI companies' "hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their A.I. products -- a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale," said A.G.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

Yet if “Born to Run” unexpectedly animates the pub jukebox, long dormant toes might start tapping, if only for a few wistful moments.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

That core truth animates the centuries-old English tradition of equity, which developed as a system to do justice when courts of law weren’t up to the task.

From Slate Jul. 1, 2025

This entire episode took me from fear to a rage that burned in me then, animates me now, and will likely leave me on fire for the rest of my days.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Starbucks items featuring the “Peanuts” characters — known for animated classics like “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” — were intended to promote the return of Starbucks’s pumpkin-spice latte.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

To guide workers through monotonous tasks at the caviar facility, the company uses animated training videos with Korean subtitles, the executive said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

South Park won best animated series, Mr. Scorsese took best docuseries, Love on the Spectrum won best unstructured reality programme, and the Super Bowl Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny won best variety special.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

"Coyote vs Acme" took fifth place, with Will Forte and an animated Wile E. Coyote snaring another $5.6 million for Falling Forward Films.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

Fadi glanced at his sister’s profile, animated by the tale of how she’d made it across the border into Peshawar.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

The Whatnot auctions are events—sellers are personalities who fire up bids, chats buzz with hundreds of buyers, and the animating pressure is often the same: bid now or lose out.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

The show obviously exists with that world, as part of it, but you didn’t spend a whole lot of time animating texts.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

It is about much more profound questions of Britain's sovereignty, economy and place in the world which have been animating our politics for more than a decade now.

From BBC Apr. 13, 2026

Democracy demands allegiance to ideals of human dignity and political equality, the protection of which is its animating purpose.

From Slate Feb. 24, 2026

The animating figure was Caltech chemist Linus Pauling, a Nobel laureate known for his strong leftist views and stem-winding oratorical flair.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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