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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
However perverse and depraved the ideas that animate the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah, they inspire the kind of conviction that motivates people to fight grimly on against the odds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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
“Absolutely incredible. So—how does it work? Will all the images be this detailed? This colorful? Are you some kind of prodigy, destined to animate award-winning films for Disney?”
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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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
As president of Dartmouth College, I’m committed to this goal, and how to restore public confidence in higher education animates conversations among my presidential peers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 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
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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South Park won best animated series, Mr. Scorsese took best docuseries, Love on the Spectrum won best unstructured reality programme, and the Super Bowl Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny won best variety special.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
"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
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
Soojin has a crowd of people around her and is an animated Ada Lovelace, although the way she is waving her arms around makes her look like she’s dancing more than programming a computer.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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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
She’s not as concerned with settling differences as with understanding the thoughts and emotions animating the clashes of her divergent characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 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
The artificial life force animating them seemed to fail if pressed too far...at least in some of them.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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