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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

Racial equity and climate change used to animate the movement.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

Similar concerns animate Andrews’ sculpture practice, which she’s returned to now that her life has regained equilibrium.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2026

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

From Slate Jan. 14, 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

“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

The military is perennially short on pilots, and what animates most young men and women to sign up certainly isn’t the pay or the itinerant lifestyle.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 22, 2025

Much has been written about right-wing women and what animates them.

From Slate Jun. 30, 2025

This entire episode took me from fear to a rage that burned in me then, animates me now, and will likely leave me on fire for the rest of my days.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Domestically, its $124.5 million debut was the third biggest for any film this year, behind the animated sequels “Toy Story 5” and “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

After a lenghty, and at times animated, discussion involving DeChambeau, his caddie and officials, the U.S. golfer was assessed a two-stroke penalty that dropped him into a fifth-place tie and three strokes back.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Its hit animated series "KPop Demon Hunters" won an Oscar for best animated feature this year.

From Barron's Jul. 16, 2026

The live-action version came just 10 years after the original animated hit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

If you want to know how animated and talkative and outgoing someone is, clearly, you have to meet him or her in person.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The show obviously exists with that world, as part of it, but you didn’t spend a whole lot of time animating texts.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

The search for connection is an animating desire throughout “Kafkaesque.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 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

Instead, I sank my energy into being the sole animating force in my little common-area universe.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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