levitate

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

His narrator, Richard, is the least shiny of a golden foursome whose youth, beauty and careless wealth allow them to levitate somewhere over Sydney Harbor, happily encased in the champagne bubble of their bottomless self-regard.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

It might run through your head as a young girl spreads jam on a piece of bread, or as a multitude of floating, smiling white puffballs, known as warawara, levitate blissfully skyward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

It’s the spell you cast to levitate something.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

He gripped his trident loosely in his right hand and stretched his left hand out like he was blessing Leo, or possibly attempting to levitate him.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

As he is dying, he levitates, at last free from the monstrous burden of flesh.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2023

André De Shields, still riding high from his Tony-winning triumph in “Hadestown,” practically levitates as Willy’s brother, Ben, a character who enters the play on a cloud of surreal remembrance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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

When the levitated beads interact, they do so by scattering sound waves between one another.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 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

She was mostly obscured by the drapes, and one stockinged leg was supported by the knee of the other, which gave it its curious, slanting and levitated appearance.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

But the grasping device was not physically connected to anything - it appeared to be levitating inside the person's body.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024

It measured a weak pull, just 30aN, on a tiny particle 0.43mg in size by levitating it in freezing temperatures a hundredth of a degree above absolute zero -- about minus-273 degrees Celsius.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2024

It’s akin to the levitating Stanley Cup in “Caryatid,” made three years later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

When I first saw Louise she seemed to be floating about two feet off the ground, levitating.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen