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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

Only the most violent of shocks now could shake or elate the nation.

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

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 stimulates the system, elates with the confidence of control, strengthens with the courage derived from a conviction of success, and bestows in advance the imagined joy of possession.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

"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 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

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

He's "elated" now that it finally came to pass.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

I closed my eyes and let out a long exhale, half relieved, half elated.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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

She and Dutoit and the orchestra were in elating rapport.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2016

The sadness will linger, but so will an elating sense of this show’s enfolding magic.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2013

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

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama