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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

Woe unto those who fail to entertain, animate or amuse.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

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

From Slate Jan. 14, 2026

I try and animate my face as I recall the event, a true story, in which I'd foolishly challenged a black bear over the rights to a beehive.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

“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

“Boss Lincoln” is emphatically not a political-science tract; Mr. Pinsker makes his points within a gripping chronological narrative that consistently animates Lincoln’s inexhaustible quest.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 5, 2026

That core truth animates the centuries-old English tradition of equity, which developed as a system to do justice when courts of law weren’t up to the task.

From Slate Jul. 1, 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

It may also continue to haunt us forever after, as in the bone-clanking, teeth-chattering, spookily percussive 1929 animated Disney cartoon frolic, “The Skeleton Dance.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

John Stewart’s legend fared better in the animated “Justice League” and “Justice League Unlimited” series, which established him as a favorite among newcomers to the franchise.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

Nearly three dozen indie movies, along with big animated films from Disney and DreamWorks Animation, are among the recipients of California’s latest round of film tax credits.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

An animated Gabriel the Toad character and an illustration of Nogbad firing a cannon at the Ice Dragon both fetched £4,200.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

That animating spirit courses through “Celtic Art Across the Ages,” a nearly 300-object survey of jewelry, armor, chariot fittings, manuscripts, vessels, coins, carvings and textiles at the Harvard Art Museums, its sole venue.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 29, 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

Democracy demands allegiance to ideals of human dignity and political equality, the protection of which is its animating purpose.

From Slate Feb. 24, 2026

We can tell that some animating spirit has left a body; we can see the corporeal before and after.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 21, 2026

At this moment, an ingenious and animating suspicion entering Emma’s brain with regard to Jane Fairfax, this charming Mr. Dixon, and the not going to Ireland, she said, with the insidious design of farther discovery,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen




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