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emote

[ih-moht] / ɪˈmoʊt /


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The startup Manus AI, which Meta once sought to buy, has its own platform for organizing a team of big-eyed AI avatars which, like Dots, come in various shapes and colors and can emote.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

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

Last year, Epic Games filed a motion to dismiss the case, alleging that Hanagami’s “How Long” moves and their “Fortnite” emote were not “substantially similar.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 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

Hanagami is not the first dancer and creator to accuse Epic’s “Fortnite” of lifting work for emotes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

An editor helps cut together clips of her Twitch streams and format content for different platforms, and a graphic designer optimizes her YouTube thumbnails, creates custom-emoji-style reactions called emotes and animations.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2022

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

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

Demi Lovato emoted through part of her “Skyscraper,” about the aftermath of devastation.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2020

I only sought what I wanted — to stare at Song Seung-heon as he emoted with his manly eyebrows — looking where I knew I could find it, a scavenger rooting around for nourishment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2020

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

Statham has no intention of delivering more than the minimum of dialogue, let alone emoting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

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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