as in ecstasies
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
most people can't imagine the kind of elation that comes with winning a super lottery's grand prize, but they're dying to find out
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Noun
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Have a Project One of the absolute joys of long-distance backpacking is silence, or an escape from the onslaught of incessant inputs that constitute modern life.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Outside,
2 Sep. 2025 -
In this way, A Truce That Is Not Peace reads like a culmination of Toews’s career-long project of keeping her family members alive—their joys as well as their sadness.—
Kristen Martin,
The Atlantic,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The web of secrets and confessions, schemes and counterplots, short-term pleasures and far-reaching decisions, are couched in dialogue that is pugnacious, vulnerable, comedic, and sometimes richly poetic, and which feels as spontaneous as it is carefully crafted.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2025
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Despite something of a false opening promise, Last Rites is appropriately terrifying, far more successful on a scare-by-scare basis than the second or third films and a really frothy return to the aesthetic pleasures of Wan’s first Conjuring.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Elations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elations. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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