levitate
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This causes microdroplets to levitate and jump off the surface within milliseconds at lower temperatures because the speed of boiling can be controlled by changing the height of the pillars.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2024
“Good days I levitate off the ground/Some days I can’t get out of bed,” they sing, later adding “baby, I barely get through each day.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
It’s the spell you cast to levitate something.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
This vapour layer reduces the rate of heat transfer and makes liquid cooling on the hot surface ineffective, causing the liquid to levitate and skid across the surface.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2023
Coach Quatrini was going berserk again, and seemed to be trying to levitate himself off the ground.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
Especially not a green, alien orb that levitates him.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
That said, when Michael Keaton shows up, the movie virtually levitates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The South Korean researchers provided a video of what they say is LK-99 exhibiting the Meissner effect, but superconductors aren’t the only things that float above magnets—graphite, for example, also levitates.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023
The most striking is “Valor,” in which an orange rectangle levitates, ever so slightly off-center.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
Tano almost loses his balance, and he levitates in the air to steady himself.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
There was the time — actually, it happened twice — when her character, Dr. Marlena Evans, was famously possessed by the devil and even levitated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
During tests, eggs released one after another with minimal effort; with a bit of oil, they practically levitated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Interest in AI has levitated shares of Nvidia, Broadcom, and their ilk, but also stoked fresh fears of an AI bubble.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
Above the racetrack, a handful of ytterbium ions are trapped and levitated by a train of electrical, radiofrequency, and laser pulses.
From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2024
Jason levitated off the deck, encased in his own miniature tornado.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Multiply rising earnings by a higher ratio of share price to earnings, and you get a levitating stock market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
Rafael Nadal, left arm across his chest, feet levitating above the court and mouth agape, has just walloped a trademark forehand winner.
From BBC ● May 24, 2024
The experiment, published in the Science Advances journal, used levitating magnets to detect gravity on microscopic particles -- small enough to boarder on the quantum realm.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2024
It was like you were like levitating or something, because the movie was just so surprising, every moment of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
“What were You-Know-Who’s supporters up to, levitating Muggles? I mean, what was the point?”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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