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
You are close to its trunk, experiencing its lofty height and its many branches spreading out like gesturing limbs of an animate creature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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
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
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That conviction is what animates the project we call America’s Potluck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
“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
Much has been written about right-wing women and what animates them.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 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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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
And he was the voice of a small character in the animated film of Richard Adams' novel The Plague Dogs.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The Horseman and Rip Van Winkle, another figure introduced in the collection, would become classic American characters and, in 1949, a Walt Disney animated featurette would give “Sleepy Hollow” a boost for a new generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Voice actor Eric Bauza, whose career spanned more than two decades and includes roles in animated series “Unikitty!,”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
My stomach flips again, but I wrinkle my nose, about to delete the message, and then the four o’clock reminder for the AffloVest pops onto my screen, a tiny animated pill bottle dancing.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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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
Lixenberg’s photo series “Imperial Courts,” about residents of the Watts housing project, which she shot between 1993 and 2015, was likewise an animating factor behind the creative vision and legacy he wanted to build.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Whatnot auctions are events—sellers are personalities who fire up bids, chats buzz with hundreds of buyers, and the animating pressure is often the same: bid now or lose out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
The artificial life force animating them seemed to fail if pressed too far...at least in some of them.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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