animate
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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
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
In “Grass Breathing,” Mendieta, hidden beneath squares of sod, uses her own respiration to animate the earth above.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 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
The crisp air, the sunlight, the movement on the river, and the moving river itself,—the road that ran with us, seeming to sympathise with us, animate us, and encourage us on,—freshened me with new hope.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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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
An intimate historical consciousness animates the poem, as it does nearly everything Heaney wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
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
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Appearing in public for the final time in 1947, the year of Churchill’s cutting comment, Baldwin noticed an animated throng reacting to his arrival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
South Park won best animated series, Mr. Scorsese took best docuseries, Love on the Spectrum won best unstructured reality programme, and the Super Bowl Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny won best variety special.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
"Coyote vs Acme" took fifth place, with Will Forte and an animated Wile E. Coyote snaring another $5.6 million for Falling Forward Films.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Last week, “South Park,” won an Emmy Award for outstanding animated program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
There was nothing very surprising in that; but again, I was rather surprised, when he said, as if he were animated by a brilliant idea,—
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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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
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
Democracy demands allegiance to ideals of human dignity and political equality, the protection of which is its animating purpose.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
He turned his face to me, flames animating the shadows that fell there under his eyes, along his cheekbones.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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