emote
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It released the emote as part of a Charli XCX-themed concert within Dress to Impress, a popular game available on the platform.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
With the character’s green skin shrouded under shades of navy color grading, it’s almost impossible to see Erivo emote in scenes where it counts the most.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2024
“For us the only question was, ‘Will Brits be able to emote in the same way as people in the U.S. have done?’ ” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024
Yeoh, given carte blanche to emote, showed that feeling could be conveyed in an acceptance speech that was largely polished and non-self-aggrandizing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
They brood; they emote; but the idea that they are murderous is a cultural libel.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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She emotes, she has a developed backstory, and she delivers some of the film’s most compelling dialogue with confident gusto.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
In a YouTube video of this final L.A. show, Zapata often closes her eyes and vividly emotes the pain, anger and joy in her music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
For all of its motion, the whole work is restrained, reserved, well-behaved while the music emotes, soft-focused even after the scrim lifts.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
The gold currency is unique to iHeartLand, but it’s not clear if the emotes are exclusive or available elsewhere in Fortnite.
From The Verge ● Aug. 25, 2022
An editor helps cut together clips of her Twitch streams and format content for different platforms, and a graphic designer optimizes her YouTube thumbnails, creates custom-emoji-style reactions called emotes and animations.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2022
At this point, everyone has already emoted to the ballads and swaggered to the raps, and all that’s left to do is jump and down belting, “Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh ohh.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
Guilfoyle did not snarl, but she shouted and emoted as if trying to be heard in the rafters of a cavernous convention hall even though she was just speaking to a television camera.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2020
Demi Lovato emoted through part of her “Skyscraper,” about the aftermath of devastation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2020
As in her “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” confessionals, she rarely emoted while talking.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2020
Later, she had become a soubrette and a star in merry little plays in which she sang and danced and "emoted," all in one evening.
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
So I needed Wagner’s command of the screen, how the camera loves him, to see him thinking and emoting not in an overt way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Songs like “No Good Deed” and “March of the Witch Hunters” are chopped up and rearranged to allow for more dialogue and less emoting, distending the film into a bloated heap.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
Now, the aim is to keep layoffs even more efficient—with fewer chances for ugly public scenes or communal emoting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
It’s an odd choice, at least until you put that against the fact that the other blocking option available in this restricted space is turning and simply emoting directly to the audience instead.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Nansi is just eyes and a nose now, but that doesn’t stop him from emoting pure annoyance.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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