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
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
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
“I like that one too. But some drawings animate better than others. Let’s try all three and see what happens.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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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
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
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When Emma Thompson learned of Lasseter joining Skydance, she withdrew from its highly anticipated upcoming animated film “Luck.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
"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
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
To guide workers through monotonous tasks at the caviar facility, the company uses animated training videos with Korean subtitles, the executive said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
We arrived at Nyame’s palace to see animated statues barring the giant doors.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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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
Lixenberg’s photo series “Imperial Courts,” about residents of the Watts housing project, which she shot between 1993 and 2015, was likewise an animating factor behind the creative vision and legacy he wanted to build.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The search for connection is an animating desire throughout “Kafkaesque.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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
Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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