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"Liquid water is denser than ice, which makes ice cubes float. Jon's finding means that diamond would float in liquid carbon at high pressures."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Demand from retail investors significantly outstripped supply, with over 8,000 times more orders than shares available, it said ahead of its float.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

He came across the bus that would become his boat in a scrapyard and first got to work on making it float as part of the Belfast 2024 festival of creative arts.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Residents spent months piecing together the rumors and clues that float through a small town.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

It's cool and wet, and the smoke seems to float over the small space.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

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 floats are only part of the effort.

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

He trained in how to operate under conditions of what we then called weightlessness, or zero gravity—when a person floats around in the air.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Stuck in traffic on Interstate 84 on a Friday afternoon in August, driving toward the New Jersey shore, Rasmussen floated the idea of filling the channel with nothing but sports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

When a friend and I first floated the idea of a Euro summer vacation, I could see the Instagram-perfect vision in my mind.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

Buoys and flippers still littered the ground along the fence, while others floated in the water.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

There was sharp backlash earlier this year when Bloomberg reported that Kirby had floated the idea of a merger between United and American in a meeting with President Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

She floated across the cove, nosing herself off the shore and bumping from reef to rocks.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Citizen Zoo has also set up camera traps and "latrine rafts" - floating rafts where the water voles defecate - to help gather evidence of the population on the Hogsmill.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Cars are quickly and easily driven on and off the vessel where they are stored on multiple levels like a floating parking garage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Eliminating the cap on how much people pay into the program is a suggestion that has been floating around for years.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

At that time, “Love” was floating around 1 million listeners on Spotify.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

They were, “played upon, separately at first, and finally all together” like a floating orchestra.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock