emote
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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
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
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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
“Fortnite” players can also purchase backpacks — “back bling” — and “Spider-Verse” emotes to taunt their opponents.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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
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
And after he was right, he emoted just how we would feel, too.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2021
“As someone who usually lives with a skip in their step and a smile on their face — I was screamed out and cried out and emoted out by the end,” she said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 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
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
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
No break in his voice, no emoting, just the words.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 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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