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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

“We conclude the district court erred in its application of the substantial similarity test as Hanagami plausibly alleged that his choreography and Epic’s emote share substantial similarities,” Judge Richard A. Paez said in Wednesday’s opinion.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2023

The model has 85 points of articulation, which let E.T. move about and emote while on screen.

From Washington Times Dec. 21, 2022

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

“Fortnite” players can also purchase backpacks — “back bling” — and “Spider-Verse” emotes to taunt their opponents.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2023

There are also unlockable emotes to equip that can add more personality to your character.

From The Verge Aug. 24, 2022

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

Guilfoyle did not snarl, but she shouted and emoted as if trying to be heard in the rafters of a cavernous convention hall even though she was just speaking to a television camera.

From Washington Post Aug. 26, 2020

Demi Lovato emoted through part of her “Skyscraper,” about the aftermath of devastation.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2020

I only sought what I wanted — to stare at Song Seung-heon as he emoted with his manly eyebrows — looking where I knew I could find it, a scavenger rooting around for nourishment.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 2020

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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