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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

These insights animate Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation,” in which the psychologist argues that children, like trees, are antifragile.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 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

Woe unto those who fail to entertain, animate or amuse.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

Images from the day animate themselves, jumbling in my vision.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

“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

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

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

A 13-year-old schoolboy has made his voice-acting debut as Thomas the Tank Engine in a new animated series.

From BBC Sep. 17, 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

He saw Njemile talking to someone he didn’t recognize, both of them animated and expressive.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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 same animating spirit that drove the Founding Fathers led Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry Ford to create business empires.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 10, 2026

The artificial life force animating them seemed to fail if pressed too far...at least in some of them.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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