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- noun Plural form of
elation .
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Examples
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To run down meat was to experience thrills and elations.
The Law of Meat 2010
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False divinity, when addicted to, evokes redundant elations and depressions, fears and guilt and perceptions of gains and losses.
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In a novel set in the near future, Dr. Tom More is a “not very successful psychiatrist” and bad Catholic who is prey to “depressions and elations and morning terrors.”
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I went through every lap of the marathon — from the frustrations, to the elations, to the World Series, to 9/11, to gradually moving on.
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In a novel set in the near future, Dr. Tom More is a “not very successful psychiatrist” and bad Catholic who is prey to “depressions and elations and morning terrors.”
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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And the elations you feel in a relationship -- satisfied, triumphant, and ecstatic -- you can feel while being single.
Samara O'Shea: The Grass is Rarely (Almost Never) Greener 2008
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She was told that this was the statement made and the policy of the county board of elations:
Ohio: Suit Filed for Election Observers, "Dial Up" Provisional Ballots, and a Comment 2008
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It is only in dialectically examining the elations between the parts and the whole I all their aspects, and in regulating them, that we can know the disease and cure it.
Archive 2006-10-01 Abhay N 2006
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It is only in dialectically examining the elations between the parts and the whole I all their aspects, and in regulating them, that we can know the disease and cure it.
Achievements of Mao Tse Tung Abhay N 2006
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The term preemptive gets bantered around a lot on thie subject of this war but preventive is more accurate, although its sounds a lot less P(ublic)R(elations)-correct.
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