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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

Missing are the wit and verve, the "elate darting rhythms" with which Shaw said Mozart conveyed the spirit of the work.

From Time Magazine Archive

The recitation of these old scandals seemed to elate her as much as they horrified Doge.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

The idea of a second edition quite elates me.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

"We are all stunned and elated by this discovery, yet also humbled ⁠to remember what happened in that place so long ago," said Russ Matthews, president of the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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

Years later, on an early trip to Haiti, an elated Farmer phoned to tell his parents he’d been accepted to Harvard Medical School.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

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

It makes for an elating circus atmosphere, hospitable to audiences only cursorily versed in art history.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019

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

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama