float
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I float amid the hundred-ish attendees, moving from conversation to conversation with various election geeks and wanna-be Josh Lymans.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
Passengers float around in automated chairs, surrounded by screens, food and entertainment.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
As the theories continued to float around across various sub-meetings, with Hesmondhalgh and Bella Ramsey setting their sights on Myha'la, the celebrities headed out to their next mission.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
And as I said in the book, in my mind, I would sort of float away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
His breath is warm on my cheek and he smells good, like fresh rain, and my butterflies float up.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Some coral species with fast-growing branches are planted onto "coral trees" that look like old television antennas and are suspended in the water column, with floats to keep them upright.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
I would arrive armed with what I liked to call my anti-drowning armour: armbands, floats, goggles, and a swimming hat.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
And in the culminating piece that gives the collection its title, she writes of the catastrophic betrayal that floats out of sight in the later writings of Alice Munro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But when Kore-eda’s execution isn’t as assured, as is the case with his latest, all that delicacy simply floats off into the ether, rarely amounting to much more than a halfhearted shrug.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
A warm breeze floats in through the open truck window, carrying with it the scent of fresh bread, fire-roasted tomatoes, and Lady Rizzo’s famous Parmesan-basil-garlic sauce, and my stomach rumbles.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Neely clarified that Sanders made the so-called offer while joking around on the show in May and hadn’t actually floated the idea to actual media members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Oasis first floated Chapek as a board candidate in July 2025, noting his experience in the hospitality industry, according to a Monday securities filing from Vail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
One ambitious report published by the think tank floated the radical idea of curbing the credit-card swipe fees enforced at grocery stores.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
One option we floated, because I was baptized Catholic, was the iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
You could float on your back because if you started to daydream you’d bump your head on the reef before you floated out to sea.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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"He was just floating for those last 17 days. It was great. It was joyous."
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Rather than floating through walls or ignoring their surroundings, they appear to follow familiar physical rules.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Beyond small floating reactors, government officials are crafting a regulatory landscape for a commercial nuclear fleet to bring goods across oceans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Workers used nets fixed to floating pontoons late Wednesday to guide the animal gradually, but it dived beneath a net and returned to the canal overnight, authorities said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Onstage, the band playing was invisible even to her own eyes, a trumpet and violin floating several feet above the ground, and a drum set tapping out its own beat.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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