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someone or something that gives life or vigor to
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Like Skibidi Toilet, Italian Brainrot has inspired a tsunami of merchandise, like trading cards and plushies, but unlike Skibidi, which was created by a YouTube animator, Italian Brainrot has no single artist to be clearly credited.
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Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
And McGriff heads the CineOdyssey Film Festival, which is entering a new phase this year focusing on animation, and specifically Black animators.
—Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
An Italian animator who lives in Germany and works with AI by trade, Mosele created their first Italian brain-rot content in March.
—Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Speaking with Variety, Akihiko Yamashita spent nearly two years working as the supervising animator on the Studio Ghibli film.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
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Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
And McGriff heads the CineOdyssey Film Festival, which is entering a new phase this year focusing on animation, and specifically Black animators.
—Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
An Italian animator who lives in Germany and works with AI by trade, Mosele created their first Italian brain-rot content in March.
—Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Speaking with Variety, Akihiko Yamashita spent nearly two years working as the supervising animator on the Studio Ghibli film.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for animator
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The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Oct. 2025
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In bodycam footage provided by Ory, the gold truck's driver said the woman driving the car behind him caused the wreck after pulling into the other lane to avoid colliding with the back of the truck.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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The movie is produced by co-executors of the Michael Jackson estate, John Branca and John McClain, and stars Paris' cousin Jaafar Jackson, 29, as the late pop star.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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Still, the executors of his estate pressed on and won.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
24 Sep. 2025
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Gaza is decimated In Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says more than 66,000 people have been killed − about half of them women and children − and humanitarian agencies now warn of famine.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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The Jays in recent years missed out on several big names in free agency — Shohei Ohtani, Juan Soto and Roki Sasaki.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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The company is also launching a video generator app — following a similar announcement from Meta — to rival TikTok and YouTube.—
Rachyl Jones,
semafor.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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In the past few months, ByteDance released Seedance, an AI video generator that many users are already calling the best in the world, and a new version of Seedream, an elite image model.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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To him, animal behavior was largely based on stimulus and response.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
1 Oct. 2025
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The receptors in your hands respond to myriad stimuli-like pressures—vibrations in sync with 15 different families of neurons.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Season 14 of the NBC drama will see the arrival of Sal Vasquez (played by On Call’s Brandon Larracuente), who will act as the catalyst for all kinds of changes within the team, executive producer Andrea Newman told TVLine.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
30 Sep. 2025
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Etsy's landmark partnership with OpenAI is a major catalyst for shares moving forward, according to BTIG.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
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Tesla had a first-mover advantage in China in 2013, leveraging the government’s support of EVs with subsidies and incentives and its production base and opening a gigafactory in Shanghai in 2019.—
Rebecca A. Fannin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Livermore and Alameda officials unsuccessfully offered their own tax incentive packages.—
Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Don’t burn out chasing every flicker of inspiration.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
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Petras is gearing up to promote her third album, out soon, and was looking for fashion inspiration.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Animator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animator. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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