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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emote
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Alice killing Jane gets its own paragraph: After awkwardly running like Taylor Swift in that treadmill commercial, Alice hops over Jane, grabs her by the throat, and feeds her to a drooling wolf.—
Wolfgang Ruth,
Vulture,
1 May 2025
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Symptoms may include excessive panting, glazed eyes, lethargy, drooling, vomiting, or confusion.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 July 2025
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Singer and actor Adam Lambert has waved goodbye to his super chic Beverly Hills, California, estate for $6.2 million and is passing it on to new owners who too will fawn over its epic views.—
TJ Macias
July 23,
Sacbee.com,
23 July 2025
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Whether mentioned on TV or published in People Magazine, the list of celebrities fawning over the game keeps growing, including Savannah Guthrie and Jenna Bush Hager (of the Today Show), Julia Roberts, Jessica Parker, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, Meagan Markle and more.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
18 July 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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But other times, windows would be rearranged seemingly at random, with unused space and weird gaps that require you to fuss around and move all your windows around again.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 July 2025
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“Emote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emote. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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