FLOATED Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

floated

verb

past tense of float

as in hovered

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air a canoe floating down the river particles of dust floating in the air

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as in wandered

to move about from place to place aimlessly lost touch with a childhood friend who spent much of his adult life floating from place to place

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Recent Examples of floated She’s viewed as one of the most progressive members of the House of Representatives and has been floated as a potential candidate in either the 2028 presidential race or as a challenger to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, also a Democrat. —

Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026 Mamdani has also floated the idea of raising taxes on wealthy New Yorkers, a proposal Hochul has resisted. —

Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026 The project has been in the development for about four years, with initial and more recent proposals for the site being floated by Bay Area real estate firm oWOW, which designed the latest version of the tower. —

George Avalos, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026 Trump has also floated the idea of renaming New York's Penn Station and Washington's Dulles Airport after himself. —

Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026 Two years ago, Democrats in the state legislature floated a bill that aimed to halt the issuance of new oil and gas permits by the end of 2029, a proposal that raised hackles in the industry. —

John Aguilar, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2026 City officials have expressed interest in connecting the ARTIC station and OCVibe development in the Platinum Triangle to the resort area, with gondolas, trams and autonomous vehicles among the emerging transit options floated in recent years. —

Victoria Le, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2026 Iran has also floated the possibility of conditioning broader access to the strait on yuan settlement — a proposal that would formalize what is already happening in practice. —

Clay Chandler, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026 The White House had floated the extraordinary move of invoking a national emergency to pay the TSA agents, a politically and legally fraught approach. —

Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026

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Prices for brent crude, the global oil benchmark, hovered around $110 a barrel Friday morning, while bond yields shot up.

— Bart Jansen, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
The school district’s enrollment has hovered around 14,650 students for the past decade, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2026