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Whether the past is prologue, and what the past even means, will animate the contest.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024

When a child puts the shapes together to form a shark, for example, it will animate on the projected display and swim around.

From The Verge • Sep. 28, 2021

Instead, it will animate her emotional world and artistic legacy, using dance.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2020

“We’ll send a logo out, and somebody will animate it on their lunch break and send it back to us,” Norton said.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2015

The three branches of the legislature are about to enter into a state of activity: one sentiment will animate them.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron