as in to excite
to fill with great joy
the winning of the state basketball championship elated the whole town
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Recent Examples of elate
The play ignited the crowd and elated his coach, who ran over and embraced Aidan Mahaney at the scorer’s table.
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Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2025
But hearing those very industrial and harsh sounds for the first time was such an elating feeling.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
All those probed were in unanimous agreement, and the 21-year-old might agree himself alongside others that have been elated by his start to the 2024/2025 season.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
The opening ceremony elated even the most hardened of local skeptics of the Olympic Games—locally: les Jeux Olympiques, the JO.
—Lindsey Tramuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2024
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Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2025
But hearing those very industrial and harsh sounds for the first time was such an elating feeling.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
All those probed were in unanimous agreement, and the 21-year-old might agree himself alongside others that have been elated by his start to the 2024/2025 season.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
The opening ceremony elated even the most hardened of local skeptics of the Olympic Games—locally: les Jeux Olympiques, the JO.
—Lindsey Tramuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elate
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Both are beautiful, but the pressure and precision required here is on another level and that challenge excites me.—
Tom Hyland,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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Earlier this month, wildlife enthusiasts were excited over a pair of young bald eagles that flew out of their nest for the first time, hovering high above Big Bear Lake.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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The combination of microservices with edge computing CDNs and micro frontends creates a robust application development framework that enables fast, resilient and scalable applications that delight users while driving business expansion.—
Raju Dandigam,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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The sequel has plenty of the same horror-comedy elements that delighted audiences a couple years ago, but there’s also a major action upgrade that resembles the paths that Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day took from their predecessors.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2025
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Thornton faces a Level 4 felony charge of operating while intoxicated; Level 5 felonies of reckless homicide, criminal recklessness and driving while suspended causing death; and Level 6 felonies of driving while suspended causing bodily injury and reckless driving.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
23 June 2025
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Read is charged with second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in January 2022 death of John O'Keefe.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
19 June 2025
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“Elate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elate. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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