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animate

[an-uh-mayt, 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

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

He emerged with twins whose distinct qualities animate an awards-worthy dual performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 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

An intimate historical consciousness animates the poem, as it does nearly everything Heaney wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

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

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025

What animates Volpe is creating moments for his kids to figure it out for themselves.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Watch an impressive new movie: Wildwood, the new animated film from the studio that made Coraline, is a marvel.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

Pokémon is a Japanese franchise best known for its trading cards, video games and animated television series.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The stop-motion fantasy is the studio’s first film rated above PG, and much of the industry is watching to see whether a darker, more mature animated feature can find an audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

There was, thankfully, some more animated action elsewhere in Friday's episode.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The screen saver is the flying leopard and the meerkat that I drew, and Ray and I animated.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Van der poel, Evenepoel, Wout van Aert, Paul Seixas and Pidcock were all there, all animating and pushing to breakaway from one another under gradually yellowing Canadian maples.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

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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