float
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"The seats started to float, the captain kept going, and the bow exploded," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
"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
Residents spent months piecing together the rumors and clues that float through a small town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
She blew glittery dust into the air that seemed to float above the counter.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Heather is part of one of the passing floats, and tells me she is a steelpan player, although today she's "just partying" on her float.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Steelhead Beach is a popular starting place for warm-weather floats down the Russian River.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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
Thus a chip of ebony, which is heavier than water, floats if placed on the surface of a bucket of water.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The idea is to develop the technology for movable plants that can be floated off the coast and used to power the port and eventually cities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Shein first floated plans to go public in 2022, when it achieved its peak valuation of $100 billion in a private funding round.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The idea was floated by the campaign group Positive Money, which estimated it would raise £19bn a year.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Last weekend on social media Mr. Khanna floated another idea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In their first séances, raps sounded, the tables lifted, and lights floated.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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"See, you can do it, you're floating," my instructor, Omie Dale, tells me proudly.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
"It was pasted on a chest that was floating," said Rimal, 44.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
It envisions putting the reactors on floating barges, which could be anchored miles offshore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Ship-tracking company Vortexa estimates that Iran has roughly 80 million barrels of crude in floating storage in Asian waters, representing billions of dollars of potential revenues for Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Two figures stand on a jagged glacier floating in the deep, cold waters.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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