animates
- present tense form of animate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“Their hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their AI products — a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
AI companies' "hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their A.I. products -- a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale," said A.G.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
An intimate historical consciousness animates the poem, as it does nearly everything Heaney wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Much has been written about right-wing women and what animates them.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
This entire episode took me from fear to a rage that burned in me then, animates me now, and will likely leave me on fire for the rest of my days.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
