elate
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And if you can hear a song as irresistible as “Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat” and not feel your soul elate, you may be a stranger to joy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2020
McQueen worked the way a dreaming brain does, transmuting suppressed instinct into images that can trouble, mystify, and elate.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
“One lives in hope that music is more than mere noise, filling up idle time, whether intending to elate or lament,” he added.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2010
It was a record-breaking budget calculated to elate no one and enrage no one.
From Time Magazine Archive
She said the autumn never failed to amaze her; to elate.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
You go your way heedless, uncaring — as if you owned all the treasures of the world; even grief elates you, even sorrow sits well upon your brow.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2016
In a nation ravaged by corruption, lashed by typhoons, and beaten down by poverty, nothing unites and elates the populace like Manny Pacquiao.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2009
The bulk of the reportage for the cover naturally came from Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate, whose assignment to the West German capital elates from Sept.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It just shows the dope side of the industry when a strong company like Option steps up to support me and my ideas to create something amazing right in Vancouver." elates Chris.
From Time Magazine Archive
That leaves us calm; this elates us with the sense of onward motion against the salt sea air.
From A History of Greek Art by Frank Bigelow Tarbell
The Australian parents of a woman reported missing in devastating floods that struck Nepal said Sunday they were "elated" and relieved after their daughter was found safe and sound.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
When the South Carolina Republican landed Saturday in Washington, colleagues said he was tired but elated after a whirlwind of meetings in Europe and Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
He's "elated" now that it finally came to pass.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
In my head there was disbelief, and my emotions were volatile – one moment in tears, the next elated because it was going to allow me to go about my daily routine.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
But he’d never been so elated in his life.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
Instead, once his deal with the Dodgers was finalized, Hernández tweeted out the news himself, elating Dodger fans by writing, “Sources say….. I’m back!!!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
So when you liberate aggressive energy, it's euphoric, elating, you feel alive.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2021
True, certain body images here radiate bold, untrammeled joy, as in the case of Rashaad Newsome’s elating, fast-cut video potpourri of New Orleans Mardi Gras parades and vogueing.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
And it's maddening when you can't do it every time, but it's elating when you can do it at all.
From Fox News ● Apr. 3, 2021
What I felt was one part jet lag, maybe, but two parts something more profound and elating.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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5-letter words, List 1
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Poems 11.2
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