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
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
They are not going to levitate when they get there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
“Well, I can never levitate anything right, so we ’re even,” Widget says, but he takes her cup without complaint and concentrates until it too is steaming and hot again.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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
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
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
I was levitated 40 feet in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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
A tall redhead with an explosion of freckles on his face levitated the old football at the start of a play.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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
The effect of it all is so electric, it’s liable to leave you levitating.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2024
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
Olive the levitating girl had to be belted into a chair screwed to the floor so that she wouldn’t float up to the ceiling.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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