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animate

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




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Another used A.I. to animate a photo of Walters, the digital replica lamenting his sentence of “death by incarceration.”

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

I used it a little bit to animate my drawings in one of the sequences from the show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

You are close to its trunk, experiencing its lofty height and its many branches spreading out like gesturing limbs of an animate creature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Instead of pronouns that distinguished between male and female, Sasha’s language had pronouns that distinguished between animate and inanimate objects.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

“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

AI companies' "hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their A.I. products -- a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale," said A.G.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

As president of Dartmouth College, I’m committed to this goal, and how to restore public confidence in higher education animates conversations among my presidential peers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025

“Yeah. I’ve got this program that animates drawings. Every year I put together a movie of one year in the Delgado family. I thought it would be fun to include an animated clip of Tadeo.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Come prepared for a mix of retro live-action, animated and puppetry snippets while munching on churros or popcorn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Starbucks items featuring the “Peanuts” characters — known for animated classics like “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” — were intended to promote the return of Starbucks’s pumpkin-spice latte.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

To guide workers through monotonous tasks at the caviar facility, the company uses animated training videos with Korean subtitles, the executive said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

A 13-year-old schoolboy has made his voice-acting debut as Thomas the Tank Engine in a new animated series.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Her parents were puppets, animated before her, and Pet was turning its head slowly, as if it could smell how quickly she was floating away.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

Van der poel, Evenepoel, Wout van Aert, Paul Seixas and Pidcock were all there, all animating and pushing to breakaway from one another under gradually yellowing Canadian maples.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Lixenberg’s photo series “Imperial Courts,” about residents of the Watts housing project, which she shot between 1993 and 2015, was likewise an animating factor behind the creative vision and legacy he wanted to build.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

The same animating spirit that drove the Founding Fathers led Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry Ford to create business empires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 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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