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Recent Examples of emote
By emoting or joking online, Swifties are able to connect with one another and find a sense of closure for an event that has been uplifting for many of them.
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Even so, there remains a slightly amateurish quality to the project, involving on-the-nose dialogue and an odd tic whereby the actors tend to emote with their eyebrows — whereas Washington’s power comes from how much her character appears to be keeping inside.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
Fight Club is at heart a dry roast of masculinity, a burlesque of the models and habits with which men define and often destroy themselves to avoid emoting or being vulnerable.
—Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
Thanks to their advanced animatronics (and human controllers), the droids are able to emote and engage with visitors.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Even so, there remains a slightly amateurish quality to the project, involving on-the-nose dialogue and an odd tic whereby the actors tend to emote with their eyebrows — whereas Washington’s power comes from how much her character appears to be keeping inside.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
Fight Club is at heart a dry roast of masculinity, a burlesque of the models and habits with which men define and often destroy themselves to avoid emoting or being vulnerable.
—Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
Thanks to their advanced animatronics (and human controllers), the droids are able to emote and engage with visitors.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emote
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Fair to say that the Ichiban has already accomplished its primary objective of getting moto nerds to drool over it on their phone screens – even though there is little likelihood that it will be built as it is envisioned.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Feb. 2025
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Pay attention for signs of distress: panting, drooling, a high heart rate, dry nose, lethargy, or even vomiting, staggering or seizures.—
Kate Bradshaw,
The Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Posey will be given a lot of rope, befitting a franchise icon who received almost nothing but fawning praise from the media and fan base since exploding onto the scene.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2025
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Eve’s sis Maggie (Julianna Margulies), a novelist who dips into her personal life liberally for inspiration, bickers a lot with her judgmental but fawning husband Nick (Campbell Scott), a novelist bitten by the writer’s block.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
20 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Williams never fussed about it, though and his relationships with many in the organization weren’t overly affected.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Apr. 2025
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No crying or fussing or squirming.—
Danielle Pergament,
SELF,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Emote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emote. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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