free-floating

Definition of free-floatingnext

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Recent Examples of free-floating The base is also magnetic, so your razor won’t be free-floating around the hotel bathroom. Sara Coughlin, Allure, 5 July 2026 Or perhaps the brightening was caused by a free-floating planet (FFP) somewhere in our galaxy, a world ejected from an alien planetary system that could create a PBH-mimicking microlensing event of its own. Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 2026 The film’s unspeakably haunting final shot typifies Cannes 2026 to a tee, its free-floating detachment from reality doubling as a revelatory expression of our own relationship to it. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 May 2026 Yesterday in California, the physical world and the world of free-floating grievance and ideological bluster met once again, when two teenagers attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing a security guard and two others, before taking their own lives. Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for free-floating
Recent Examples of Synonyms for free-floating
Adjective
  • The drones then find the best hovering altitude before each lining up to spray the fire, one after the other.
    Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026
  • He-Man was now a jolly, quip-ready hero, whose best friends were scaredy-cat Cringer (a green-and-yellow tiger who transformed into Battle Cat), and an annoying, hovering magician called Orko.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 June 2026
Adjective
  • Opt for bigger hanging bulbs, discrete flickers, or even hanging sheaths.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
  • To maintain the immersive illusion, Iñárritu eschewed traditional hanging fabric.
    Robert Lang, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Companies with a smaller market value generally tend to have more floating rate debt than larger businesses.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • In addition, the action includes top-tier spider combat and awesome web-slinging and web-gliding traversal abilities.
    George Yang, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026

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“Free-floating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free-floating. Accessed 28 Aug. 2026.

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