levitate
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I marveled at how the hidden-in-the-floor projections allow the ghost to levitate, but also increasingly felt a sense of mourning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
This causes microdroplets to levitate and jump off the surface within milliseconds at lower temperatures because the speed of boiling can be controlled by changing the height of the pillars.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 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
“Were any of you guys carrying artifacts? One that would give me the ability to fly? Or levitate? Or teleport?”
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Betye Saar practically levitates into the room wearing a Max Mara jacket that resembles a bird’s plumage, with a butter-yellow silk Dior dress grazing the ground behind her and a cane in her hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 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
As he is dying, he levitates, at last free from the monstrous burden of flesh.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 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
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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
I parked next to the house with the upcar still levitated, and I climbed down and went to the door.
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
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Multiply rising earnings by a higher ratio of share price to earnings, and you get a levitating stock market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 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
The experiment, published in the Science Advances journal, used levitating magnets to detect gravity on microscopic particles -- small enough to boarder on the quantum realm.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2024
It was like you were like levitating or something, because the movie was just so surprising, every moment of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
The galvanized bucket remained perfectly still on top of her head—a great, levitating crown.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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