afloat
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Giving while living might help your adult children to afford a home, be it a house or an apartment, or to stay afloat after a job loss.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
The few hundred dollars a month credited to a card she could use at supermarkets allowed her to supplement her modest retirement funds and keep her family afloat.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
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
Speaking publicly for the first time about the present condition of maternity services, she added that Northern Ireland should not be relying on the goodwill of midwives to keep some services afloat.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
I looked at it in wonder and thought, it will be impossible for this barge, as large as it is, to keep the obelisk afloat.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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