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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

First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

If favourable, I do not deny that the praise elates, and if unfavourable, that the abuse irritates.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Nervous, elated and tired students flocked to schools across the UK on Thursday to find out their grades, with many telling the BBC how they did and their hopes for the future.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

When I got to school that morning, I was more elated than ever to walk through the gate.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai

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

Similarly elating is a blue wall that bears a fantastic variety of both functional and decorative store-bought metalwork by Maia Ruth Lee.

From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019

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

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama