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emote

[ih-moht] / ɪˈmoʊt /


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But it also pre-dates many other traditions which may be why Lee and other stars seem freer to emote.

From Salon Jun. 4, 2024

Compared with the shaggy, likable Kong, who, with the ability to emote, is a character audiences have always empathized with, Godzilla is “a little bit more complicated to pull off,” according to the filmmaker.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 29, 2024

Even before the war, she said, Ukrainians tended to be stoic and reluctant to emote.

From New York Times Mar. 18, 2023

"Rihanna never needed to over-sing anything; she always sounded too cool to emote," said Stereogum's Tom Breihan. ahead of her Super Bowl debut.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2023

They brood; they emote; but the idea that they are murderous is a cultural libel.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

She emotes, she has a developed backstory, and she delivers some of the film’s most compelling dialogue with confident gusto.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2025

Other Lady Gaga-inspired “Fortnite” accessories include a guitar, a microphone and a keytar, and dancing emotes.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 21, 2024

When she described how she emotes, she kept likening herself to a prehistoric man, standing at the edge of an ocean, slowly gaining sentience: “ ‘Who the hell am I?’” she said.

From New York Times Apr. 12, 2022

Twitch and other platforms have even gone so far as to remove certain emotes because people were using them to communicate certain words.

From Washington Post Apr. 8, 2022

One thing that wasn’t mentioned at all in the update was last week’s massive leak of content that revealed new characters, skins, weapons, and emotes that the developers are working on.

From The Verge Mar. 28, 2022

“As someone who usually lives with a skip in their step and a smile on their face — I was screamed out and cried out and emoted out by the end,” she said.

From New York Times Sep. 26, 2021

I was particularly proud of the fact that in two scenes — one in particular — I really emoted.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2021

As in her “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” confessionals, she rarely emoted while talking.

From Seattle Times Feb. 7, 2020

Trump emoted so vigorously that sweat pooled on his upper lip and glistened across his face.

From Washington Post Mar. 9, 2019

Later, she had become a soubrette and a star in merry little plays in which she sang and danced and "emoted," all in one evening.

From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

Songs like “No Good Deed” and “March of the Witch Hunters” are chopped up and rearranged to allow for more dialogue and less emoting, distending the film into a bloated heap.

From Salon Nov. 21, 2025

Now, the aim is to keep layoffs even more efficient—with fewer chances for ugly public scenes or communal emoting.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

Theater can seem trivial to people, people standing onstage and emoting in some way, but it does so much for a person.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

It’s an odd choice, at least until you put that against the fact that the other blocking option available in this restricted space is turning and simply emoting directly to the audience instead.

From Seattle Times Mar. 22, 2023

Then she accompanied Miss Goodacre, who sang “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes” in what I considered to be a completely indifferent voice, all the while emoting heavily in Harry’s direction.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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