as in brightness
the quality or state of having abundant or intense activity
the animation of any city depends upon an abundance of street-level restaurants, shops, and places of entertainment
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Recent Examples of animation
These are framed by an animation of silhouetted figures gathering around the statue in protest, lassoing it with a rope, and then pulling it down—a reenactment of a moment memorialized in a painting by Johannes Oertel that is also on view nearby.
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Cat Dawson,
ARTnews.com,
3 July 2026
Vibrant animation, infectious energy, and a killer soundtrack make this a future cult favorite.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
2 July 2026
The animation is deliberately crude, meant to evoke the imagination of a kid hyped up on sugar.
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Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 July 2026
The animation features bright colors, and the screen is always moving, cutting rapidly from one scene to another.
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Parents,
1 July 2026
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Cat Dawson,
ARTnews.com,
3 July 2026
Vibrant animation, infectious energy, and a killer soundtrack make this a future cult favorite.
—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
2 July 2026
The animation is deliberately crude, meant to evoke the imagination of a kid hyped up on sugar.
—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 July 2026
The animation features bright colors, and the screen is always moving, cutting rapidly from one scene to another.
—
Parents,
1 July 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for animation
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The continental climate brings cooler summers and colder winters, a boon for wine lovers seeking aromatics and brightness over weight and ripeness.
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Lowering your phone’s brightness can actually help preserve your night vision.
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Over the summer, Lawrence, like other college cities, switches from the liveliness of young students to the day-to-day of residents who have made a life there.
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Many of the streets seem narrower than those in Forza Horizon 6‘s Tokyo, and have some more traffic, too, which helps contribute a sense of scale and liveliness to the world.
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And in a place where celebrity passersby and visiting monarchs typically get the same collective shrug, a certain exuberance appeared.
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The Slovenian is a rider in his prime, whose sole previous weaknesses — the heat and a touch of youthful tactical exuberance — have been virtually eradicated from his performances.
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How is one not enamored of the Dutch fans’ togetherness and cheerfulness, or the costumes and smiles of the Japanese fans?
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Finns may not be known for demonstrative cheerfulness, nor necessarily for being makers of excessively happy music.
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How can a sliver of that game day vibrancy be repeated on the average weekday?
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The vibrancy of tatreez often contrasts with harsh living conditions in camps amid employment and other restrictions the refugees face.
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Paine rightly saw that a critical determinant for the success of our new nation and the vitality of its democracy was sustained, active citizen participation in political and social affairs.
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But the everyday diminishment of vitality, mobility and equanimity defined life in 1776.
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Since former President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth Independence Day Act in 2021, the federal holiday has been celebrated with vibrance and passion.
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Atlanta’s rich coffee scene owes its vibrance to its strong local focus, with cafes and roasters reflecting and shaping neighborhood identity.
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As part of vendor governance, vendors need to move from periodic vulnerability assessment to continuous monitoring of cybersecurity robustness and proactively declare the pen test findings of an independent auditor.
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Improving robustness to these real-world environmental effects remains an important area for future development.
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“Animation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animation. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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