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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

"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

He only has to make sure that it is done with the necessary warmth and conviction, for this elates the crowd.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther

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

Vukašin Petrović was elated when FIFA’s official prediction-market partner told him he was set to win a ticket to the World Cup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Cape Verde's football team have been welcomed home by tens of thousands of elated supporters following a historic run at the World Cup.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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

Tiredness had made him superficially elated and forthcoming.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

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

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