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
Neither the pursuit of records nor the fact that he is the most successful driver in the 22-year his tory of organized drag racing seems to elate him.
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
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
Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money.
From Dubliners by James Joyce
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 Graham 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
GUADALAJARA, México — While Mexico defeated South Korea at Guadalajara Stadium on Thursday in front of an elated crowd, protesters outside expressed a very different view of the World Cup’s impact on the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
For one elated moment, Reyna thought it was a sign from Bellona.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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
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 makes for an elating circus atmosphere, hospitable to audiences only cursorily versed in art history.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
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
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5-letter words, List 1
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