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emote

[ih-moht] / ɪˈmoʊt /


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How do you think the athletic nature of a big arena show will impact your ability to emote?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

You can watch a good actor, and they can really make you emote, right, because there’s an instant accessibility.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026

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

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

Twitch and other platforms have even gone so far as to remove certain emotes because people were using them to communicate certain words.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022

The same is true of the “cmonbruh” emote, prompting many streamers to ban the use of both emotes outright to prevent that kind of behavior.

From The Verge ● Jan. 5, 2022

Even when silent, she emoted with the entirety of her face, arrestingly expressive with just a small hand gesture.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

I only sought what I wanted — to stare at Song Seung-heon as he emoted with his manly eyebrows — looking where I knew I could find it, a scavenger rooting around for nourishment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2020

As in her “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” confessionals, she rarely emoted while talking.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2020

Trump emoted so vigorously that sweat pooled on his upper lip and glistened across his face.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2019

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

But his performance still emphasizes full-bodied emoting as much as his dialogue delivery, if not more.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

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

All that painful emoting is how people become resilient through suffering; if she bottles it up, she doesn’t learn that she can live through her pain.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022

Then she accompanied Miss Goodacre, who sang “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes” in what I considered to be a completely indifferent voice, all the while emoting heavily in Harry’s direction.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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