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 Some floated Beth Moore as a possible candidate for SBC president. —

Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 8 June 2026 The proposal is preliminary, which means the final product could be different than what is being floated at present. —

George Avalos, Mercury News, 8 June 2026 The American Airlines Center in Dallas has been floated as a host for a special convention in September for the midterm election. —

Jack Fink, CBS News, 7 June 2026 The election has become a bit of a high-profile contest, where a range of policy ideas were floated in the primary, as increasingly frequent disasters have rocked the private homeowners’ insurance market in California. —

Pat Maio, Oc Register, 3 June 2026 Commissioners also want to restrict the type of advertisements on the robots and floated the idea of no advertisements at all, an ask the company behind the robots does not seem keen on. —

Michelle Marchante june 3, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026 Mullin first floated the idea to reduce or suspend services at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in response to ongoing protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center nearby. —

Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 3 June 2026 Earlier this year, the chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola floated the idea of adding protein or fiber to more soft drinks. —

Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026 As darkness hit, torch lamps were lit, and music floated by from a speaker system. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

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In college, my smoking habit hovered at a solid two packs of Marlboro Lights a day.

— Kimberly McCreight, Time, 3 June 2026
The reason the recent numbers are important is that the proposal would lock in a 50/50 split, whereas the free-market system has historically hovered around it.

— Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026