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emote

[ih-moht] / ɪˈmoʊt /


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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

In 2019, social media personality Backpack Kid alleged the game ripped off his popular “Floss” dance move for an emote.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2023

Even before the war, she said, Ukrainians tended to be stoic and reluctant to emote.

From New York Times Mar. 18, 2023

"Rihanna never needed to over-sing anything; she always sounded too cool to emote," said Stereogum's Tom Breihan. ahead of her Super Bowl debut.

From BBC Feb. 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

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

Hanagami is not the first dancer and creator to accuse Epic’s “Fortnite” of lifting work for emotes.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2023

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

Epic will be selling Dragon Ball-themed backblings, pickaxes, gliders, and emotes as well.

From The Verge Aug. 16, 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

A bit strident in her top notes and underpowered lower down, van den Heever emoted plausibly and sang with admirable control, but made little impact.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2022

And after he was right, he emoted just how we would feel, too.

From Washington Post Dec. 29, 2021

I was particularly proud of the fact that in two scenes — one in particular — I really emoted.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2021

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

The incomparable star is a vision in studded white or powder-blue jumpsuits—cavorting, emoting, karate-chopping and spreading the bat wings of his sewn-on cape in a move that never fails to thrill the audience.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 2026

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

Which was something I’d never been asked to do before, to trust that the audience will still hopefully be invested, even if there’s not a lot of emoting.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 21, 2023

What the state is wrestling with, and the public is emoting about, is the coming end of the internal combustion engine.

From Seattle Times Mar. 1, 2023

It seemed as if the shaft sighed every time steam rose from it, as if emoting a whisper of anticipation.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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