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animate

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




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“What’s important is that it doesn’t replace the physical play. You want the technology to animate the player and to be shareable. If the Smart Play technology achieves that, it’ll be very sustainable.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

However perverse and depraved the ideas that animate the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah, they inspire the kind of conviction that motivates people to fight grimly on against the odds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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

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

But, to her surprise, his face, awake and animate, conveyed none of the brutality that had been her first impression.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

“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

What animates Volpe is creating moments for his kids to figure it out for themselves.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Cami Kwan, director of Burbank, Calif.-based stop-motion studio Apartment D Films, which animated the e.l.f. spot, estimates that inbound inquiries have doubled over the past two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

While most of his career was spent onstage, you’ll find his name in the credits of many films and shows and hear his baritone in a slew of video games and animated work.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Earlier this year, McLoughlin was also unveiled as a producer on an animated movie version of Bloodborne, one of the highest-rated video games of all time.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Lee’s crusade has animated a fiery debate in the dog-training world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

His face, which was still stupefied-looking, suddenly became animated.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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

The search for connection is an animating desire throughout “Kafkaesque.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Other issues also are animating the race, including debate over the response to the Palisades fire and a controversial housing project in Venice.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

But because ambition succeeds best when disguised by virtue, he wanted to furnish the Alliance with an animating ideology—a manifest destiny, as it were, or mission civilisatrice.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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