animate

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

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

Your avatar buddy is housed in a little jar with an LED projection system to display and animate it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

That Seu marries the feminine and the spartan in her space feels intentional — a reflection of the dualities that animate her life and work.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

The static from the carpet gave them a shock, presumably, and it helped animate his monster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

Both sets of terms, like their Greek originals, included the whole study of nature, animate and inanimate—thus Boyle’s Physiological Essays of 1661 are about natural science as a whole.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton