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float

[floht] / floʊt /


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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

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

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

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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