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animate

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




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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

You are close to its trunk, experiencing its lofty height and its many branches spreading out like gesturing limbs of an animate creature.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

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

From Slate Jan. 14, 2026

Your avatar buddy is housed in a little jar with an LED projection system to display and animate it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 11, 2026

“Absolutely incredible. So—how does it work? Will all the images be this detailed? This colorful? Are you some kind of prodigy, destined to animate award-winning films for Disney?”

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

“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

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

“Yeah. I’ve got this program that animates drawings. Every year I put together a movie of one year in the Delgado family. I thought it would be fun to include an animated clip of Tadeo.”

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

At 21, she’s been rising through Hollywood’s ranks, doing everything from animated voices to toplining live-action series, all while garnering millions of social media followers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

At one point, he dramatically punched out a batter on two consecutive pitches, only for an animated rendering to reveal that he was wrong both times, in front of nearly 40,000 people.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Its hit animated series "KPop Demon Hunters" won an Oscar for best animated feature this year.

From Barron's Jul. 16, 2026

Serkis is careful to say "modern film version", because the first ever full-length British animated film of any kind was 1954's Animal Farm, the version that generations of school children have been shown in class.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

And now that they were alone, Matilda all of a sudden became wildly animated.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

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

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

From Slate Feb. 24, 2026

Feeding this public appetite for sadism has been an animating feature of Noem’s DHS.

From Salon Feb. 13, 2026

At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma’s brain with regard to Jane Fairfax, this charming Mr. Dixon, and the not going to Ireland, she said, with the insidious design of farther discovery,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen




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