animate
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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
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“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
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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
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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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