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animate

[an-uh-meyt, an-uh-mit] / ˈæn əˌmeɪt, ˈæn ə mɪt /




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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

Such outcomes would not resolve the broader debates that animate these cases.

From Slate Jan. 14, 2026

The third track, “Appetite,” features horns and strings to animate his story of the loneliness and isolation of life on the road.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 13, 2026

Images from the day animate themselves, jumbling in my vision.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

By placing sculpture and design in direct dialogue, the show reveals how thoroughly Noguchi’s sculptural intelligence animates every object he created.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

“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

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

"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

“Dang!,” an amiably chaotic new adult animated comedy premiering Tuesday on Netflix, tells the story of the Dangs, three Chinese American siblings living in New York City.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Reddington and prosecutor Jennifer Sprague had an animated discussion with the judge in court.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Mr. Lemoncello tapped a button in his pirate hat and an animated version of the library’s floor plan was instantly displayed on the conference room’s plasma-screen TVs.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

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

Feeding this public appetite for sadism has been an animating feature of Noem’s DHS.

From Salon Feb. 13, 2026

The same animating spirit that drove the Founding Fathers led Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry Ford to create business empires.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 10, 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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