animators

noun

plural of animator
as in drivers
someone or something that gives life or vigor to

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Recent Examples of animators Motivating a new generation of animators and storytellers also fuels Buermann. — Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 All three animators who spoke to USA TODAY asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation from others in the music industry and harassment online. — Krystie Lee Yandoli, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2026 The visual effects artists and animators then got to work creating digital Martians that would have the handmade, idiosyncratic style Burton originally intended to achieve with stop-motion. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026 Studios are firing skilled animators, then rehiring them to fix what the models get wrong. — Sadev Parikh, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2026 And the animators threw some fun curveballs, including making the embodiment of evil into a shirtless hottie that would make even shirtless Kirk jealous. — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026 So many people are doing amazing things on the show, like our dope writers and animators. — Dominique Fluker, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 The team included three animators, two screenwriters, three sound producers, a sound supervisor and a color artist, while the company hired native Kazakh actors to voice the characters. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 22 July 2026 Unless valid challenges are presented, a group of 137 workers at the studio including animators, digital puppetry artists, CG modelers and other workers will soon join the union. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for animators
  1. drivers
  2. agencies
  3. executors
  4. generators
  5. incentives
  6. catalysts
  7. stimuli
  8. inspirations
Noun
  • Uber also told Mashable that drivers need a front-facing camera and microphone to use the feature.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The advisory urges drivers to slow down, use their headlights, and leave extra space between vehicles.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of drivers
Noun
  • The Justice Department did not detail the damage to the agencies or other targets from the computer intrusions.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The president gets to hire, or appoint, the people who run these agencies; the Senate has to approve them.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of agencies
Noun
  • Mitchell Zuckerman, a cofounder of Art Market Advisors and a former Sotheby’s executive, told me that executors and beneficiaries frequently choose guarantees.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • That’s why disputes over executors and other estate fiduciaries are among the most common issues raised in probate litigation.
    — Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 29 July 2026
Definition of executors
Noun
  • The electricity harvested from the vehicle skin can run onboard systems, recharge battery banks, and reduce the fuel needed for auxiliary generators.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Rely on people with generators and those who understand how they can be safely deployed and shared.
    — Freida Graves, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of generators
Noun
  • Industry stakeholders argued that the measure had the unintended consequence of hamstringing Hollywood’s recovery by limiting the ability of studios to use state incentives for in-state production.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Pritzker even signed a 2019 bill that encouraged the use of tax incentives to help ensure data-center growth.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of incentives
Noun
  • Wells says Shift4Payments has a slew of positive catalysts ahead.
    — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The catalyst uses an atomic-scale structure that prevents nickel from dissolving during operation, a process that can cause conventional catalysts to degrade over time.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of catalysts
Noun
  • What is your approach to writing, in terms of outside stimuli?
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The third is to develop novel variations of your stimuli or your benchmark items in order to test robustness and generalization.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of stimuli
Noun
  • Tons of our style inspirations have been sporting the pants, including Jennifer Aniston, Anne Hathaway, and D’Arcy Carden who all wore monochromatic black looks.
    — Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The conversation will explore his cinematic and cultural inspirations and reflect on the early short films, community, and collaborations that helped shape his unique artistic voice.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of inspirations

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“Animators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animators. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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