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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

Racial equity and climate change used to animate the movement.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

The show, a touring tutorial he created and performs solo, allows Page the opportunity to animate with barnstorming crackle a rogue’s gallery of Shakespearean scoundrels.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2026

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

From Slate Jan. 14, 2026

A small handcar rested on the tracks, its iron pump waiting for a human touch to animate it.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

“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

It is the question at the heart of that novel that animates Ms. Popova’s own work.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

However, he did employ artificial intelligence to create the video for Spike Island, which animates the infamous "cardboard cut-out" figures who appear on the cover of Pulp's biggest album, Different Class.

From BBC Apr. 10, 2025

This entire episode took me from fear to a rage that burned in me then, animates me now, and will likely leave me on fire for the rest of my days.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Domestically, its $124.5 million debut was the third biggest for any film this year, behind the animated sequels “Toy Story 5” and “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

After a lenghty, and at times animated, discussion involving DeChambeau, his caddie and officials, the U.S. golfer was assessed a two-stroke penalty that dropped him into a fifth-place tie and three strokes back.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 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

I am nothing, no one, a messenger no more worthy of attention than an animated twig woman or an owl.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

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

With no less than the animating principle of the universe: “azoth,” the secret essence alchemists had sought for centuries.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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