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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
elevate .
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Examples
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The title elevates her to the most highest ranking woman in the court besides the Empress.
Unusual Historicals Jeannie Lin 2009
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As people who take SSRI drugs like Prozac know, serotonin elevates mood and can also act as an appetite suppresant.
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Diagnosing people with pejorative labels elevates the therapist to a superior position while diminishing those who seek help.
Dr. Peter Breggin: Empathic Therapy: An Emerging Field Dr. Peter Breggin 2011
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Diagnosing people with pejorative labels elevates the therapist to a superior position while diminishing those who seek help.
Dr. Peter Breggin: Empathic Therapy: An Emerging Field Dr. Peter Breggin 2011
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The titles against their names take some time to appear, and although it isn't really that important to know who they are and which Apollo mission they were on, it does lend a lot of weight to what they say, and even that little title elevates them in the audience's eyes from one of those seven billion to one of the nine.
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Translated into English, that means that if there's an electrical signal in the heart, and one part of the ECG -- which we call the ST segment -- elevates, that is a sure sign of a heart attack.
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Translated into English, that means that if there's an electrical signal in the heart, and one part of the ECG -- which we call the ST segment -- elevates, that is a sure sign of a heart attack.
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Translated into English, that means that if there's an electrical signal in the heart, and one part of the ECG -- which we call the ST segment -- elevates, that is a sure sign of a heart attack.
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Diagnosing people with pejorative labels elevates the therapist to a superior position while diminishing those who seek help.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dr. Peter Breggin 2011
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The use of these terms elevates the status of terrorists who ascribe to Islam to a level that harms countless peaceful Muslims.
NY Post: News 2010
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