as in exhilarating
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as in exciting
to fill with great joy
the winning of the state basketball championship elated the whole town
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Recent Examples of elating
Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
Verb
This helped convince the administration to shift to their side, elating students, especially Simpson.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elating
Adjective
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The exhilarating ride experience alone looks to be enough to draw a crowd but Miral isn’t stopping there.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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The electricity being generated from Madison Square Garden to my TV during Game 4 was exhilarating!—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
Verb
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Major Wilson, 17, has been around horses most of his life and now spends much of his time helping younger riders get ready, showing them how to saddle their horses without exciting them.—
Jhair Romero,
Houston Chronicle,
26 Feb. 2026
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For Harrington and her husband Dante, the thought of triplets was shocking but exciting all the same.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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In March, during their final match in Uzbekistan before the World Cup, the atmosphere was loud, buoyant and joyous.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
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The birth of his son, Bodhi, should have been a joyous event.—
Keith Wagstaff,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2026
Verb
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Subtle key changes shift throughout and the song’s bridge is an intoxicating balance of burst and contraction.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
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As a lifelong yearner, that unbridled sense of hope is intoxicating.—
Carlos De Loera,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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Matchday in Panama is a blissful assault on the senses.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
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Forty-eight days, 16 hours, 57 minutes and 12 seconds after a virus transforms humanity into a blissful symbiotic horde, one of its survivors, Carol (Rhea Seehorn), treats a rooftop as a personal driving range — the golf balls shattering a neighboring building’s windows.—
Daron James,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
Adjective
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My body felt euphoric and light—transported and suspended in a temporal plane.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
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Spectators lingered long after the final buzzer, still in shock, refusing to leave a euphoric scene.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
14 June 2026
Adjective
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As the film’s dance sequences played in front of me before ending in an ecstatic, cathartic rave-release, I was reminded again of that hopeful feeling for what the future may hold.—
Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
16 June 2026
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Christina Baanders-Decker and her husband, who run Midwest Cyclery in Westport, were ecstatic to learn the Dutch national team would call Kansas City home for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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Five hundred fans broke into rapturous applause.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
8 June 2026
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The brand that started with a single backpack design on the streets of New York has hit the top five best-selling brand list on StockX — where audiences are paying above retail for the gear — and the brand's recent London Fashion Week debut was also received with rapturous applause.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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“Elating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elating. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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