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emoting

verb

present participle of emote

as in drooling

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 emoting In the beginning of my career with him, the first year was about emoting more in different moments of the game. — Will Sammon, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026 Statham has no intention of delivering more than the minimum of dialogue, let alone emoting. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Despite the high tech projections and precise lighting and sound effects and the whole thing about people turning into rhinoceri, this a wondrously theatrical production, based on real people talking and emoting and screaming and waving their arms about. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026

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There was one of Melissa Gorga’s sprinkle cookies ground into the carpet, and there was Kelsey Swanson, passed out under the piano and drooling on the parquet.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
Typical letdown game for a Florida team the national media just spent a week drooling over.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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Soon, the president of the United States (John Goodman) and his cabinet of fawning nitwits come to Casa Digger — because that’s how powerful Digger is — to plan the response.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
His stature will prevent draftniks from fawning over him, and even opponents aren’t immune to underestimating him in person.

— Antonio Morales, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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