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Recent Examples of free-floating
Astronomers, who sometimes like to kill fun, call these worlds free-floating planets, which is not nearly as cool a term.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
The researchers observed that Knot E could likely be a free-floating evaporating gas globule with a dense cometary-like structure, which requires further investigation.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2025
Of all the free-floating planets — or planets without parent stars — that JWST was able to directly detect, a whopping 9% of them were locked up in binary systems.
—Big Think, 20 Mar. 2025
The search turned up free-floating objects roughly two to three times the mass of Jupiter.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Mar. 2025
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
The researchers observed that Knot E could likely be a free-floating evaporating gas globule with a dense cometary-like structure, which requires further investigation.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2025
Of all the free-floating planets — or planets without parent stars — that JWST was able to directly detect, a whopping 9% of them were locked up in binary systems.
—Big Think, 20 Mar. 2025
The search turned up free-floating objects roughly two to three times the mass of Jupiter.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free-floating
Adjective
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Of the other methods – including electrocution, lethal gas and hanging – lethal injection had the highest botch rate of more than 7%. ‘An embrace of brutality’ Still, states have remained averse to the firing squad, a position that experts who spoke to CNN believe stems from its overt violence.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN Money,
10 Apr. 2025
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The neutral material keeps it from looking like an eye sore and can be expanded for more hanging space as needed.—
Micaela Arnett,
Rolling Stone,
10 Jan. 2024
Adjective
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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
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The boat, a single motorboat, was found floating and half-submerged near the Harbor One Marina.—
Julia Gomez,
USA TODAY,
3 Sep. 2024
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“Free-floating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free-floating. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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