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animate

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




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“What’s important is that it doesn’t replace the physical play. You want the technology to animate the player and to be shareable. If the Smart Play technology achieves that, it’ll be very sustainable.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 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

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

Instead of pronouns that distinguished between male and female, Sasha’s language had pronouns that distinguished between animate and inanimate objects.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

“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

“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

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

After completing his round DeChambeau travelled back to the scene of the incident at the fifth hole and was seen in animated discussions with a rules official.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 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

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

The live-action version came just 10 years after the original animated hit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

His face, which was still stupefied-looking, suddenly became animated.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

The search for connection is an animating desire throughout “Kafkaesque.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 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

Popular rule became the animating spirit of 1776, and it remains the reason why “Common Sense” still matters.

From Salon Jan. 10, 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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