animate
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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
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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
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
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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
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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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