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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

At each convention, he managed to control and placate, if not to elate, both the flaming Northern liberals and the truculent Southern conservatives on the explosive issue of civil rights.

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

Bobby elates the disenchanted with his blanket condemnation of the way things are, but his alternatives for the most part are either vague or on the safe side.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Everybody had begun to come under the influence of that cheerfulness of humour, the sense of relief bordering on gaiety, which generally elates people when a voyage is drawing to a close.

From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Shortly after Diana’s death in 1997, Spencer wrote that he spoke by phone to Charles, who he said seemed strangely elated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

In further extracts published on Thursday, he claimed how the King "sounded giddily elated" when he called him after Diana's death, alleging Charles sounded like a "lottery winner".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

During one self-reflective moment, Bryan yells, “Yeah! Video games!” elated at how his shooting is improving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Spencer claimed Charles had "sounded giddily elated, like a lottery winner" at the news of Diana's demise.

From Barron's

In the six months since we moved to Chokecherry, I’ve seen Principal Brademas furious, elated, stern, excited, and even emotional.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

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

It’s elating, or overwhelming, depending on your experience.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2017

What I felt was one part jet lag, maybe, but two parts something more profound and elating.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama