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emote

[ih-moht] / ɪˈmoʊt /


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It released the emote as part of a Charli XCX-themed concert within Dress to Impress, a popular game available on the platform.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2025

And though the show is soapy and comically frenetic, it offers its ensemble juicy roles to emote to their hearts’ content.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2024

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

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

From New York Times Mar. 18, 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

“Fortnite” players can also purchase backpacks — “back bling” — and “Spider-Verse” emotes to taunt their opponents.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2023

For all of its motion, the whole work is restrained, reserved, well-behaved while the music emotes, soft-focused even after the scrim lifts.

From New York Times May 5, 2023

There are also unlockable emotes to equip that can add more personality to your character.

From The Verge Aug. 24, 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

And after he was right, he emoted just how we would feel, too.

From Washington Post Dec. 29, 2021

Even when silent, she emoted with the entirety of her face, arrestingly expressive with just a small hand gesture.

From New York Times Jul. 28, 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

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

But his performance still emphasizes full-bodied emoting as much as his dialogue delivery, if not more.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2026

The incomparable star is a vision in studded white or powder-blue jumpsuits—cavorting, emoting, karate-chopping and spreading the bat wings of his sewn-on cape in a move that never fails to thrill the audience.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 2026

So I needed Wagner’s command of the screen, how the camera loves him, to see him thinking and emoting not in an overt way.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2025

What the state is wrestling with, and the public is emoting about, is the coming end of the internal combustion engine.

From Seattle Times Mar. 1, 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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