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Recent Examples of emote
These sinuous visual narratives play with scale, as larger figures seem to be emoting in the present while others appear ghostlike.
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Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
This audacious approach meant that the Williams character had to look like an ape but otherwise emote and behave like a human in a believable way alongside human actors.
—Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Even now, with no way to hide behind my usual euphemisms or analogies, emoting still feels at times too frank and candid.
—Hannah Seo, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, Emma Stone, who had up until this point been the Best Actress front-runner for her singing, dancing, emoting performance in La La Land, is starting to feel the cold hand of the La La Land backlash creeping up on her.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
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Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
This audacious approach meant that the Williams character had to look like an ape but otherwise emote and behave like a human in a believable way alongside human actors.
—Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Even now, with no way to hide behind my usual euphemisms or analogies, emoting still feels at times too frank and candid.
—Hannah Seo, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, Emma Stone, who had up until this point been the Best Actress front-runner for her singing, dancing, emoting performance in La La Land, is starting to feel the cold hand of the La La Land backlash creeping up on her.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emote
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Thank you to this show for giving us so many things to drool over every season.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Symptoms may begin within minutes, which include heavy drooling—especially in cats—and redness on the skin and in or around the mouth.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Aug. 2025
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Rob Reiner is back as fawning filmmaker Marty DiBergi, with cameos including Elton John, Questlove and Paul McCartney.—
Chris Foran,
jsonline.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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And power structures everywhere reinforce, reward even require fawning.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Others might tell you that hosting an awards show is a thankless gig, but Bargatze doesn’t seem fussed.—
Lacey Rose,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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This was the mid 1980s and tandem skydiving hadn’t been popularized yet, so his father, Roger, adjusted accordingly by stuffing carpet padding into the leg pads to stop him from fussing.—
Angelina Liu,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Emote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emote. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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