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 Maybe that’s when my misconceptions about the Cape Cod Bay side of the Cape floated away. —

Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 23 June 2026 Both the council and Congress have floated some good ideas for streamlining disaster assistance, reducing administrative burdens and improving uneven recovery capabilities among states. —

The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026 The repairs only seem to have made things worse as the new paint started peeling in large chunks that floated to the top. —

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026 Many attendees shared his focus, and the President’s name floated over the gathering like an intrusive thought. —

Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 22 June 2026 The idea was first floated by UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy last September at the Royal Television Society’s Cambridge Convention. —

Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 June 2026 Jones first floated the idea of rock star Lestat while the team filmed Season 2 in Prague in 2023, giving Wood time to begin imagining what a nearly 300-year-old vampire might wear while reinventing himself as a singer. —

Precious Fondren, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026 There have been multiple occasions over the past year where DeChambeau has legitimately floated the idea of focusing purely on his YouTube channel over his actual golf game. —

Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026 One source with knowledge of early discussions of the executive order said the idea of banning foreign nationals from working on such models had been floated for that order, but the idea never made it into a draft. —

Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 13 June 2026

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By contrast, before the onset of the conflict, the prices more consistently hovered around $67 to $71 per barrel.

— Rebecca Schneid, Time, 21 June 2026
The threat of Powell hitting that threshold — 3,490 feet in elevation — has hovered above federal water managers for months as the reservoir has continued to drop to record-low levels.

— Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 21 June 2026