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
Under his own studio, he became best known for the dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” using computer generation to animate the prehistoric creatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 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
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
Just then he raised his head, so massive I wondered at the blood it must take to animate, and he saw me.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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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
“Boss Lincoln” is emphatically not a political-science tract; Mr. Pinsker makes his points within a gripping chronological narrative that consistently animates Lincoln’s inexhaustible quest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
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
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"Forgotten Island" an animated family film, however, underperformed over the weekend, bringing in just $12.8 million for Universal on it's opening weekend.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"It was seeing him, and then watching his YouTube clips in the European Parliament and everything: I've never seen anybody so animated," said Jenner.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
Sheindlin previously mentioned that she now plans to focus on other endeavors, such as developing “Judyverse,” an adult animated series based on the viral “Baby Judge Judy” videos made with AI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Sitti replied in a voice more booming and animated than usual.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Other issues also are animating the race, including debate over the response to the Palisades fire and a controversial housing project in Venice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
That animating spirit courses through “Celtic Art Across the Ages,” a nearly 300-object survey of jewelry, armor, chariot fittings, manuscripts, vessels, coins, carvings and textiles at the Harvard Art Museums, its sole venue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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
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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