animate
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Another used A.I. to animate a photo of Walters, the digital replica lamenting his sentence of “death by incarceration.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
I used it a little bit to animate my drawings in one of the sequences from the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
They just needed to submit photographs of themselves and their loved ones, and AI would then animate the material following specific prompts.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
In “Grass Breathing,” Mendieta, hidden beneath squares of sod, uses her own respiration to animate the earth above.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
It was a different sensation; whereas the jungle’s dirt had been warm and inviting, the stable's was cooler and distinctly less animate.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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“Their hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their AI products — a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
AI companies' "hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their A.I. products -- a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale," said A.G.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Ms. Stamper is an engaging guide, and her curiosity about language, science and odd characters animates the book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
That core truth animates the centuries-old English tradition of equity, which developed as a system to do justice when courts of law weren’t up to the task.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2025
“Yeah. I’ve got this program that animates drawings. Every year I put together a movie of one year in the Delgado family. I thought it would be fun to include an animated clip of Tadeo.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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In this traditional picture, outgoing presidents are animated by equally familiar things: self-awareness, shame, party loyalty, respect for continuity, a desire for a smooth transition to a loyal successor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
The 1992 Indo-Japanese animated film Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama brought the tale to life through richly detailed, hand-drawn animation.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Many wore triangular paper hats similar to a popular animated character from Czech TV that has become a symbol of the protest.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
While most of his career was spent onstage, you’ll find his name in the credits of many films and shows and hear his baritone in a slew of video games and animated work.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
And we for a moment can catch, through the myths he made, a glimpse of that strangely and beautifully animated world.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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But a new analysis shared first with Votebeat suggests that, six years later, the issue may be losing some of its animating power for candidates.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
The show obviously exists with that world, as part of it, but you didn’t spend a whole lot of time animating texts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
It is about much more profound questions of Britain's sovereignty, economy and place in the world which have been animating our politics for more than a decade now.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
Democracy demands allegiance to ideals of human dignity and political equality, the protection of which is its animating purpose.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
But because ambition succeeds best when disguised by virtue, he wanted to furnish the Alliance with an animating ideology—a manifest destiny, as it were, or mission civilisatrice.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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