animates

present tense third-person singular of animate

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Recent Examples of animates The trailer will be available as part of free animation sample project teaming Unreal Engine and Agora Studios to produce free animation sample project, allowing animators to see what other animates are doing. John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025 This conception of the self animates rational choice theory in the social sciences, with its reliance on the model of the utility-maximizing subject. Sophia Rosenfeld september 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025 Yet what distinguishes Bowles’s work—what animates those strange, angular sentences, with their unexpected rhythms and turns of phrase and rabid energy—isn’t its interest in nonconformity but its obsession with spiritual transformation. Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 Beyond the broad concrete steps that traverse the water-friendly (and automatically irrigated) xeriscaped front yard and through the lime-green door that animates the charcoal exterior cladding hides a small courtyard open to the sky, a classic feature in an Eichler home. Mark David, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2025 Catholic social teaching, which is founded on the life and words of Jesus Christ and built on a commitment to the poor and the strangers among us, guides this work and animates those individuals who financially support it. William McCarthy, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2025 The film documents & animates Peter’s experiences as well as those of the family in Toronto. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025 This uphill-battle swashbuckling is what animates Shamieh in her dramatic work too, which pretty consistently features norm-breaking women who cause havoc. Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025 That aspirational pride animates the Ice Age Trail, end to end. Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for animates
Verb
  • Mercury entering Sagittarius today stimulates your creative faculties.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The low-level, external electrical charge stimulates the body’s internal repair mechanism.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That intense scarcity arouses a FOMO among very wealthy car lovers that allows Ferrari to charge prices like $250,000 for one of its entry-level cars, and $3 million for a hypercar like its F80.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • For various reasons—his kids are off from school during the robbery; his getaway driver drops out; his hotheaded gunman arouses suspicion—his haphazard caper doesn’t lead to riches.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Animates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animates. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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