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float

[floht] / floʊt /


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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

For the Magic 8 Ball, it was figuring out how the answer block could float without developing air bubbles, since his version is about an inch in diameter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The storm is expected to float eastward before turning north over the coming days after slowly weakening throughout Sunday and into the evening.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

There the electrical impulse is converted into a chemical neurotransmitter to float across the synapse to the next neuron.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

His father can be seen waving at rescuers as he floats nearby.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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

Suma floats in glowing green gel near the door.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

He had floated the name change in September before the UN General Assembly, saying it sounded much better.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

On a recent journey to international waters off the coast of Malaysia chartered by the U.S. advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran, empty, rusting Iranian-linked ships floated high in the water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Here’s the plan I floated to both of them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Grandpa Dodzi flipped over and did a backstroke, then floated on the water as if lying on a bed.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

You know, just hitting some tennis balls and having a taco occasionally, just floating through life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Actor Danny Dyer has delivered a petition to Downing Street calling for water companies to be nationalised after floating a giant poo sculpture down the River Thames on a boat.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

At a Sunday evening gala inside a floating art museum on the Seine River, industry executives mingled over drinks and a live jazz band while locals passed by on runs along the water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Much of the surrounding water appears dark and open, although scattered fragments of floating sea ice remain visible.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

It’s like all these little details are floating up from the bottom of a murky pond.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy


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