emote

as in to drool
to express emotion in a very dramatic or obvious way He stood on the stage, emoting and gesturing wildly.

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Recent Examples of emote The credit for how the characters emote is due to the incredible work done by our animators. Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 16 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 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for emote
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  • Leaning over him, Mary drools into Stack’s mouth, her appetite soon his own.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 June 2025
  • The American Veterinary Medical Association recommends learning the signs of overheating in dogs such as excessive panting, restlessness, excessive drooling, unsteadiness, or abnormal gum and tongue color.
    Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 24 June 2025
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  • Celebrities on the publicity circuit who are accustomed to the usual techniques and tricks of interviewers—softball questions, fawning compliments—find themselves in a different and disconcerting dynamic.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Not only was President Joe Biden in serious decline, Karine Jean-Pierre — celebrated in numerous fawning media profiles — was a rotten White House press secretary.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 6 June 2025
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  • As a storyteller, Tyagi isn’t too fussed about making his plot persuasive — the ease with which Nair and his co-counsel Dilreet Gill, played by Ananya Panday, manage to uncover evidence defies logic.
    Anupama Chopra, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Throughout the footage, Leah, from Fort Worth, Texas, can be seen fussing Lunch Box and fawning over her sweet foster pup.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025

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“Emote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emote. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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