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float

[floht] / floʊt /


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The monitoring devices which were believed to have been dropped by the Bear-F plane float on the water and use sonar to detect submarines and other vessels.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

The thin float and retail investor enticement created an artificial scarcity — if you were a small investor hankering for a piece of SpaceX action the only place to go was an overheated stock market.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Big IPO deals, including Anthropic’s planned debut and a $29 billion U.S. float for South Korean chip maker SK Hynix, are expected in the coming months.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

The technology’s hoses and nozzles can pump out ozone in microscopic nanobubbles that don’t float and can spread more widely through water than the gas’s traditional form.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

There the electrical impulse is converted into a chemical neurotransmitter to float across the synapse to the next neuron.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Nolan floats a convincing psychological reason why this Odysseus subconsciously believes his duplicitous actions during the war deserve permanent exile from civilization.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

The question those floats are helping investigate is one of the most important - and most contested - in climate science: whether one of the world's great systems of ocean currents is beginning to change.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Until the SpaceX stock actually floats on public markets, the only people who can buy shares directly are large financial players like banks and pension funds -- or very wealthy individuals.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

A violin floats between the guitars, evoking country earthiness with an elegiac tone.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

At about seven I would head home for breakfast and then back to the crab house and floats until our four-thirty supper.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

To greater or lesser degrees Burnham has floated more "public control", cost of living support, small business rates relief, and higher infrastructure investment and higher defence spending.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

These are inspired by the butter-soaked spiced Saltines that have long floated around Southern church cookbooks, family recipe boxes and bar snack menus.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2026

Blume has floated the possibility of VW's European plants making the company's Chinese-designed cars to use up spare capacity and also said that production for defence contractors could be an option.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

The sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss internal matters, said the proposal was floated at a senior staff meeting last week.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Clare floated on his back, the cold river lapping around his whiskers.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

In the past, Burnham has suggested changing inheritance tax to pay for social care reform, external, floating the idea of a 10% levy on all estates.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

It has allowed goods to come in and oil previously stranded onshore or in tankers floating in the Gulf to be moved out into the market or into storage near customers like China.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Medium and high resolution sensors operated by government agencies and commercial satellite companies have tracked these floating pumice fields as they stretch into long bands carried by surface currents.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

Around six minutes after separating from the rocket's upper stage, its booster returned to Earth vertically and was recovered on a floating platform.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

I had to stop floating and come back down to Earth and get Miss Zeldy a drink.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney




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