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Example sentences for: elevating

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In many ways he, along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe, helped define contemporary American writing, elevating journalism from journeyman's status to something like literature.
Boris Yeltsin, who didn't trust the army, further damaged it by elevating the interior ministry--with its hundreds of thousands of soldiers--as a separate, independent foundation of military power.
9 Environmental Protection: Observations on Elevating the EPA to Cabinet Status, March 21, 2002 (GAO-02-552T).
Neon alters language, its gaseous glow elevating dull verbs (EAT), bland nouns (HOTEL), and vapid antonyms (VACANCY/NO VACANCY).
As far as Pundit Central knows, this is the first instance of talking heads elevating their own comments to the status of newsworthy chat fodder.