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animate

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




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

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

A family is visiting their grandmother for Thanksgiving at an assisted-living facility and as a treat, they’ve used an app to animate some of her old black-and-white photos using artificial intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2025

He was trying to convey emotion and animate characters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The “richest body of historically specific written evidence” concerning fears of the animate dead in the Middle Ages comes from 12th-century England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

In the less than two decades of their use, the synthetic pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the animate and inanimate world that they occur virtually everywhere.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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