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 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 The Hip-Hop veteran does not speak in the video, however, the lyrics of the song emote deep feelings. Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 31 Jan. 2025 The credit for how the characters emote is due to the incredible work done by our animators. Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025 These songs emoted from the sheer joy of jamming with his band of brothers again. Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for emote
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  • There’s a reason scouts once drooled over Williams’ potential.
    C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Symptoms from scorpion stings — such as burning at the sting site, drooling.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
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  • The biggest of them all, Joe Rogan, spent the final weeks of the campaign giving many hours of fawning airtime to Trump—and to his running mate, J. D. Vance, and his key allies, such as Elon Musk—before endorsing Trump on the eve of the election.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The mind-boggling design for the measuring spoon first wowed the Internet in 2016 after a video promoting the Kickstarter campaign went viral and spawned widespread media coverage fawning over the unique design.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025
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  • On top of this, her mother and sister are fussing about her future relationship status, which leads to them plotting some dates for her.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The world saw this five-man group as an ideal of friendship, a community working and living together, fussing and fighting but making rough beauty out of it.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025

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“Emote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emote. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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