levitate

"We can levitate objects against gravity by immersing them in a sound field called a standing wave."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026

His narrator, Richard, is the least shiny of a golden foursome whose youth, beauty and careless wealth allow them to levitate somewhere over Sydney Harbor, happily encased in the champagne bubble of their bottomless self-regard.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

Planetary scientists think that electrostatic forces generated from this interaction levitate dust or ice above the ring to form the spokes, though after several decades no theory perfectly predicts the spokes.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

It’s the spell you cast to levitate something.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

The office of the presidency, as he saw it, was designed to levitate above the party squabbles and transcend partisan versions of the national interest.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Especially not a green, alien orb that levitates him.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

That said, when Michael Keaton shows up, the movie virtually levitates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The South Korean researchers provided a video of what they say is LK-99 exhibiting the Meissner effect, but superconductors aren’t the only things that float above magnets—graphite, for example, also levitates.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023

The most striking is “Valor,” in which an orange rectangle levitates, ever so slightly off-center.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022

Tano almost loses his balance, and he levitates in the air to steady himself.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

During tests, eggs released one after another with minimal effort; with a bit of oil, they practically levitated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Interest in AI has levitated shares of Nvidia, Broadcom, and their ilk, but also stoked fresh fears of an AI bubble.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

Instead, he hit the game-winning home run, nearly levitated around first base, and became an October hero yet again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025

Above the racetrack, a handful of ytterbium ions are trapped and levitated by a train of electrical, radiofrequency, and laser pulses.

From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2024

She was mostly obscured by the drapes, and one stockinged leg was supported by the knee of the other, which gave it its curious, slanting and levitated appearance.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Tesla’s demonstration of a levitating Roadster sports car was “an engineering flex with no commercial value beyond embarrassing traditional car makers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

After nearly a decade of promises, Elon Musk finally showed off a car capable of levitating.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

But the grasping device was not physically connected to anything - it appeared to be levitating inside the person's body.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024

It measured a weak pull, just 30aN, on a tiny particle 0.43mg in size by levitating it in freezing temperatures a hundredth of a degree above absolute zero -- about minus-273 degrees Celsius.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2024

Inside were the photos I knew so well: the invisible boy, the levitating girl, the boulder lifter, the man with a face painted on the back of his head.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs