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emote

[ih-moht] / ɪˈmoʊt /


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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

With the character’s green skin shrouded under shades of navy color grading, it’s almost impossible to see Erivo emote in scenes where it counts the most.

From Salon Nov. 19, 2024

In 2019, social media personality Backpack Kid alleged the game ripped off his popular “Floss” dance move for an emote.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2023

Yeoh, given carte blanche to emote, showed that feeling could be conveyed in an acceptance speech that was largely polished and non-self-aggrandizing.

From New York Times Mar. 12, 2023

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

Hanagami is not the first dancer and creator to accuse Epic’s “Fortnite” of lifting work for emotes.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2023

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

Twitch and other platforms have even gone so far as to remove certain emotes because people were using them to communicate certain words.

From Washington Post Apr. 8, 2022

The same is true of the “cmonbruh” emote, prompting many streamers to ban the use of both emotes outright to prevent that kind of behavior.

From The Verge Jan. 5, 2022

When she has emoted, it has usually been on Instagram or Twitter.

From New York Times Jan. 18, 2022

I was particularly proud of the fact that in two scenes — one in particular — I really emoted.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2021

As in her “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” confessionals, she rarely emoted while talking.

From Seattle Times Feb. 7, 2020

Trump emoted so vigorously that sweat pooled on his upper lip and glistened across his face.

From Washington Post Mar. 9, 2019

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

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

This one’s for when you feel like crumbling into your insecure teenage self and emoting breathily about how it feels like every time you try to fly, you fall.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2023

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

Nansi is just eyes and a nose now, but that doesn’t stop him from emoting pure annoyance.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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