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animate

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




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“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

However perverse and depraved the ideas that animate the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah, they inspire the kind of conviction that motivates people to fight grimly on against the odds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 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

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

From Slate Jan. 14, 2026

Some tiny bag of chemicals twitched and became animate.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

That conviction is what animates the project we call America’s Potluck.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

“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

The same logic animates the administration’s posture toward the Western Hemisphere.

From Barron's Mar. 20, 2026

Much has been written about right-wing women and what animates them.

From Slate Jun. 30, 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

An animated Gabriel the Toad character and an illustration of Nogbad firing a cannon at the Ice Dragon both fetched £4,200.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” reigns supreme over nine live-action movies and two animated features.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

He made guest appearances on many television series including "Law and Order" and "The Practice," and did voice acting in the animated "Shark Tale."

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

Sony’s animated “Across the Spider-Verse” grossed $690.8 million in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

My stomach flips again, but I wrinkle my nose, about to delete the message, and then the four o’clock reminder for the AffloVest pops onto my screen, a tiny animated pill bottle dancing.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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

She’s not as concerned with settling differences as with understanding the thoughts and emotions animating the clashes of her divergent characters.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 11, 2026

This provocation sets the narrative in motion, framed by Garbus’ choice to illustrate the children’s ambitions by animating them as pieces on a game board modeled after Monopoly.

From Salon Mar. 14, 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

Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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