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Recent Examples of floaty
The other, by the ceramic artist Katie Stout, is floored in a chunky mosaic and walled in her monstrous watercolors of floaty ladies.
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Dec. 2025
Overall drive quality is floaty and somewhat disconnected, but not terribly so.
—New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2025
These red suede kitten heel booties are a vision, especially when styled with boho, feminine pieces like a floaty maxidress, a black suede bag, and chunky gold hoop earrings.
—Clare Holden, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2025
Transparency drifted through Dior, Saint Laurent and Chloé in gossamer layers that revealed a floaty kind of allure, while leather — lightened up for spring — appeared in soft creams and chocolate, the unofficial non-color of the season.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Dec. 2025
Overall drive quality is floaty and somewhat disconnected, but not terribly so.
—New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2025
These red suede kitten heel booties are a vision, especially when styled with boho, feminine pieces like a floaty maxidress, a black suede bag, and chunky gold hoop earrings.
—Clare Holden, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2025
Transparency drifted through Dior, Saint Laurent and Chloé in gossamer layers that revealed a floaty kind of allure, while leather — lightened up for spring — appeared in soft creams and chocolate, the unofficial non-color of the season.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floaty
Adjective
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Companies with a smaller market value generally tend to have more floating rate debt than larger businesses.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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Social media posts and years of reviewing cookie-cutter luxury hotels had conditioned me to equate floating breakfasts, monogrammed accessories, butler service, and aromatherapy menus as markers of a dreamy luxury vacation.—
Katherine Alex Beaven,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The buoyant track sees Robyn rapping about having one-night stands while 10 weeks pregnant via IVF.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
8 Jan. 2026
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That said, today’s not the best start for the overall buoyant year of 2026.—
Tribune Content Agency,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Floaty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floaty. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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