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Recent Examples of elate 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 Their victory elates fans, as stigma shows Black contestants on reality dating shows and similar competitions, particularly Black women, are often hypersexualized, rejected, or otherwise shown to be the least desired or most mistreated during the course of production. Rivea Ruff, Essence, 22 July 2024 The scenes of them jaunting around their neighborhood are elating. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for elate
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Verb
  • Knowledge can excite wonder but so too can a joking voice, a sympathetic gesture and an unforeseen act of kindness.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
  • The work’s prospect for enhancing our understanding of gravitational-wave sources excites scientists who are gearing up for this new wave of detectors.
    Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • Previous videos showing young kids reacting to dads getting new haircuts, and one of a wife responding with shock to her husband shaving, have delighted the internet before.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 May 2025
  • And two and a half centuries later, Jane’s stories continue to delight readers and inspire creators like Hornby and Langan.
    Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • She was also found guilty of two counts of operating while intoxicated, causing death, and five counts of operating while intoxicated, causing serious injury in March.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 16 May 2025
  • Driving while intoxicated Senate Bill 2320 by Sen. Phil King, a Weatherford Republican, increases criminal penalties for driving while intoxicated and responds to a November 2023 crash when three members of a Fort Worth Family were killed.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2025

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“Elate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elate. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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