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being positioned above a surface an elevated monorail that transports visitors all over the theme park

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elevated

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verb

past tense of elevate
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elevated

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Recent Examples of elevated
Verb
Keep a distance from tall, isolated trees or other elevated objects. Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025 However, short-term exposure may not elicit symptoms, and elevated lead levels in the blood may be the only apparent sign of exposure. Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
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Traditional practice squad players can be elevated to the active roster a maximum of three times. Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025 Speakers noted that chronic absenteeism is down 30% from that high point, though it is still elevated for some groups, particularly Latino, Black and Indigenous students. Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for elevated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elevated
Adjective
  • The Creature survives, becomes smarter and even eloquent, and vengefully chases Frankenstein all the way to the Arctic.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Kidman was eloquent and warm, leavening her more introspective thoughts with a twinkly laugh.
    Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The surface-to-surface weapon system provides the Joint Force Commander with increased range, lethality, survivability, and missile load out.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Miners argue increased subjection to the dust has led to an eruption of black lung, an incurable disease associated with inhaling the particles.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • However, energy analysts point to the high costs of setting up in a new remote environment in harsh weather without local infrastructure, labor, or equipment.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • However, Cox said via email last week that the cost of new construction and the site topography where the old police headquarters stood drove the cost up so high that the location was not the best choice.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • Chironna and star Bryant Carroll attended the premiere and were ecstatic for the opportunity.
    Brayden Garcia October 20, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian was ecstatic to pick up the win.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • This excited me, since my go-to fall and winter shoe choice for years has been a pair of black combat boots or Chelsea boots.
    Erin Cavoto, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2025
  • There's much to look forward to this season, and the Lakers gave fans one more reason to be excited with the latest news.
    Valentina Martinez, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Elsewhere, the details lifted from the book suffer in translation – Branagh’s Victor is appropriately arrogant but not adequately tortured; De Niro’s Monster is sensitive and intuitive, but drowns in the film’s hurried, hollow second half.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The advisory was lifted Monday morning.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • In 2022, He was promoted directly to vice-chair of the military commission, skipping the usual step of serving on the 205-member Central Committee.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The biggest piece of season 4 casting news to emerge is that Janney will be promoted to a series regular alongside Bradley Whitford, who plays Todd Penn, Grace's husband.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • Weeping delights in the exalted, the sublime, the magnificent — a symphony, a vista, megafauna, even a brilliant dissertation.
    Big Think, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
  • While knowledge has been exalted by artists, poets, philosophers and scientists, dictatorships have been opposed not only by great humanists but also by science itself.
    Davide Sartini, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Elevated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elevated. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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