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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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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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On day eight of his partial paralysis, Nini finally stopped drooling and could now walk gingerly.—
Tao Lin,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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But this newsletter is more focused on how Trump and his fawning functionaries speak about and for him.—
Chris Brennan,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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Their Instagram announcement—a carousel of the couple's lavish garden engagement photoshoot—has been liked more than 35 million times since it was posted on August 26, with Swifties around the world fawning over the singer's gigantic ring.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 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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Inside, Seán glanced briefly away from the television as the women fussed at Orla’s return.—
Anne Enright,
New Yorker,
27 July 2025
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“Emote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emote. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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