elevate
verb (used with object)
to move or raise to a higher place or position; lift up.
elevates
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present tense formof elevate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It was the first album they recorded live in the studio since the ’90s, and that aspect elevates almost every song on this record; they all feel incredibly vibrant.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
It then sidles up to a smaller U.S. government jet and elevates its container once again, presumably letting Trump board unnoticed.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
What elevates Mellencamp’s song is the dual consciousness in his raspy vocal: the nagging belief in a dream that, like everything else, “just kind of came and went.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Mr. Ogilvy, who was educated at Oxford and later became a chef, writes in propulsive prose that elevates this, his first book, above a simple history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
There are a couple people dancing behind him—friends, strangers, who knows, who cares—and this energy elevates me.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
