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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

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

That leaves us calm; this elates us with the sense of onward motion against the salt sea air.

From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

The domains were a mystery to Ramani, but she was elated, especially when the school offered significant financial aid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

LACMA’s staff was elated, especially those who have been watching the project develop for decades and absorbing the large amounts of criticism that have accompanied its manifestation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Much elated with her success, Jo did ‘tell on’, all about their plays and plans, their hopes and fears for Father, and the most interesting events of the little world in which the sisters lived.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

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