float
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Ships float off the coast throughout the year, but autumn ushers in one of the biggest sailing regattas on the Mediterranean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
That could also increase the stock’s public float, or shares available for public trading, as well as its volatility.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Somewhere in the stormy waters off Greenland, a bright yellow robotic probe, known as an Argo float, is sinking silently beneath the waves.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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
She made a jam jar and maybe a little chicken house float.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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A large number of people and floats took part in the Christopher Street Day event, which passed through the city, before moving through Tiergarten park, past the Victory Column monument, and towards the Brandenberg Gate.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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
The process created carbon-rich dust resembling material that floats through interstellar space and is preserved inside comets, asteroids and meteorites.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
It’s anchored to the pool walls with bungee cords on either end, so that the mat floats in the middle of the pool but doesn’t flip over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
The brown leather book floats back to the top of my mind.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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The plan was for a currency exchange, somewhat like a bank, but that could be floated with anonymous investments and operate without the strictures of regular banks.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The ideas floated by Burnham in recent days have the feel of a Christmas wish list: ambitious but without the costs worked out yet.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has also floated separating the three-nation agreement into two separate pacts—one with Mexico and one with Canada.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
A capsized tent floated past, its metal poles twisted like a pretzel.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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Wang and Zahl analysed the problem on the assumption that the pencil was floating in a three-dimensional space, rather than on a flat surface.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
"I was floating like a dead body, and after great difficulty managed to raise my head slightly."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 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
A faint twittering sound was floating down the path from somewhere ahead of them.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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