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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

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

Off superstar producer Metro Boomin’s “Heroes and Villains” album, “Superhero” sounds like scenes in superhero movies where either the main character or villain gains their powers and levitates in the air for a few seconds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2023

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

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 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

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

They levitated off the ground and started dragging him away from us.

From "The Lightning Thief" 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

Instead of levitating, the car filled with the dreadful noise Humans call music.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth