afloat
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When sales began falling early this year at Brushstrokes + Beverages, a Long Beach “paint and sip” studio, the owners started looking at options to keep their decade-old business afloat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
As I wrote years ago, the individual investor has always been “at the very bottom of the food chain, a speck of plankton afloat in a sea of predators.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Micron’s cash position is swelling, but some companies that buy AI chips are increasingly reliant on borrowed money, and that’s helping the AI ecosystem stay afloat.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
The Portuguese government committed to a deep restructuring of the airline in 2021 in exchange for EU approval of 3.2 billion euros of public aid to keep it afloat.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
And if he did get one afloat without hurting himself, would he be able to paddle around the sandspit where the tides ran fast?
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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