levitate
verb
lev·i·tate
ˈle-və-ˌtāt 
levitated; levitating
: to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation
: to cause to levitate
Examples of levitate in a Sentence
The woman levitated above the stage.
The magician claimed he could levitate a car.
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AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
But levitating Treasury yields after a court ruled many of the administration's tariffs were imposed illegally has stoked some questioning of the benign equilibrium among policy, the economy and markets, prompting a wobble in equity indexes Tuesday.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
That began to change a couple of decades ago, Schafer says, as advances in nanofabrication allowed researchers to make devices light enough to levitate using the meager force of photophoresis alone.
—Payal Dhar, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2025
The drops levitate, sliding around the pan with wild abandon.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Levitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/levitate. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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levitate
verb
lev·i·tate
ˈlev-ə-ˌtāt
: to rise or cause to rise in the air in seeming defiance of gravity
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