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Under his own studio, he became best known for the dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” using computer generation to animate the prehistoric creatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 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
Woe unto those who fail to entertain, animate or amuse.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 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
A small handcar rested on the tracks, its iron pump waiting for a human touch to animate it.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
The same logic animates the administration’s posture toward the Western Hemisphere.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
It is the question at the heart of that novel that animates Ms. Popova’s own work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Much has been written about right-wing women and what animates them.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
What animates Volpe is creating moments for his kids to figure it out for themselves.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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"Coyote vs Acme" took fifth place, with Will Forte and an animated Wile E. Coyote snaring another $5.6 million for Falling Forward Films.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
The adults would engage in animated conversation, usually about current events, while we, the dozen or so kids, kept ourselves busy inventing games.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Reddington and prosecutor Jennifer Sprague had an animated discussion with the judge in court.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
It also helped show that an animated kids series can tackle weighty themes such as war, genocide, imperialism, sexism, propaganda and political corruption in a serialized story and be a hit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
There was nothing very surprising in that; but again, I was rather surprised, when he said, as if he were animated by a brilliant idea,—
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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That animating spirit courses through “Celtic Art Across the Ages,” a nearly 300-object survey of jewelry, armor, chariot fittings, manuscripts, vessels, coins, carvings and textiles at the Harvard Art Museums, its sole venue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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
This provocation sets the narrative in motion, framed by Garbus’ choice to illustrate the children’s ambitions by animating them as pieces on a game board modeled after Monopoly.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 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
At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma’s brain with regard to Jane Fairfax, this charming Mr. Dixon, and the not going to Ireland, she said, with the insidious design of farther discovery,
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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