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However perverse and depraved the ideas that animate the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah, they inspire the kind of conviction that motivates people to fight grimly on against the odds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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

In “Grass Breathing,” Mendieta, hidden beneath squares of sod, uses her own respiration to animate the earth above.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

Similar concerns animate Andrews’ sculpture practice, which she’s returned to now that her life has regained equilibrium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

The torn projection struggled to glow, colors bleeding and fritzing, the shape struggling to animate, but Brigit didn't take her eyes off the beautiful lady tipping her hat.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

“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

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

While most of his career was spent onstage, you’ll find his name in the credits of many films and shows and hear his baritone in a slew of video games and animated work.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Lee’s crusade has animated a fiery debate in the dog-training world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Koenig is survived by his daughter, the actress and screenwriter Danielle Koenig, who worked on the animated series Star vs. the Forces of Evil.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Voice actor Eric Bauza, whose career spanned more than two decades and includes roles in animated series “Unikitty!,”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Ms. Campbell moved off to the side, still speaking into her phone with animated flair.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Annie Ulrich designed and built the puppets, but the “life” animating them comes from the puppeteers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

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

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

For all that, Lawrence remained unmistakably the animating force at Livermore, which soon acquired the operational features of a classic Lawrence laboratory.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik