free-floating
adjective
free-float·ing
ˈfrē-ˈflō-tiŋ 
1
a
: floating freely
free-floating vegetation
b
: lacking specific attachment, direction, or purpose
free-floating ideas
2
: felt as an emotion without apparent cause
free-floating anxiety
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The artist subsequently built a device to support his free-floating canvas, which idled in the water for the rest of the exhibition.
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Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
But while free-floating and airy in its construction, the film’s deceiving familiarity slowly erodes, morphing into an unsettling, formally astute brain-tickler observing the placid domesticity of an affluent Texas family in their natural habitat.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 June 2024
Smaller objects can form in these nebulae as well, including free-floating planets.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 June 2024
Typical lures include bead rigs and egg sacs to mimic free-floating eggs that steelhead key in on.
—Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 12 June 2024
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Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
But while free-floating and airy in its construction, the film’s deceiving familiarity slowly erodes, morphing into an unsettling, formally astute brain-tickler observing the placid domesticity of an affluent Texas family in their natural habitat.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 June 2024
Smaller objects can form in these nebulae as well, including free-floating planets.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 June 2024
Typical lures include bead rigs and egg sacs to mimic free-floating eggs that steelhead key in on.
—Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 12 June 2024
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free-floating
adjective
free-float·ing
ˈfrē-ˈflōt-iŋ
: felt as an emotion without apparent cause
free-floating anxiety
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