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emote

[ih-moht] / ɪˈmoʊt /


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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

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

“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

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

Players can buy dances, known as emotes, with names based on her hit music videos.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2024

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

When she described how she emotes, she kept likening herself to a prehistoric man, standing at the edge of an ocean, slowly gaining sentience: “ ‘Who the hell am I?’” she said.

From New York Times Apr. 12, 2022

In one of his weekend blog posts, Yoshida reassured players that regardless of using emotes or other methods, players who are inactive even in those states after 30 minutes are booted from the server.

From The Verge Dec. 7, 2021

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

She may have had a “fine appreciation of the absurd,” as Morton observes in his preface, but she rarely breached convention or emoted in public.

From Washington Post Nov. 13, 2022

When she has emoted, it has usually been on Instagram or Twitter.

From New York Times Jan. 18, 2022

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

Statham has no intention of delivering more than the minimum of dialogue, let alone emoting.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

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

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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