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Recent Examples of free-floating
Once an unnamed boy (Naru Asanuma) shows up and the Lost Man realizes that this mysterious kid is not an anomaly, Exit 8 begins to adds elements of pathos and paternal anxiety to its free-floating paranoia.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2026
But she is most heavily influenced, the film suggests, by the sheer ubiquity of school shootings and gun culture, which has contaminated America at large with a free-floating psychic residue of mass violence.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Throughout pregnancy, researchers claim that as much as 10 percent of the free-floating DNA in a mother’s bloodstream comes from the fetus.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
But in opera, a score isn’t just free-floating abstraction.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2026
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2026
But she is most heavily influenced, the film suggests, by the sheer ubiquity of school shootings and gun culture, which has contaminated America at large with a free-floating psychic residue of mass violence.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Throughout pregnancy, researchers claim that as much as 10 percent of the free-floating DNA in a mother’s bloodstream comes from the fetus.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
But in opera, a score isn’t just free-floating abstraction.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free-floating
Adjective
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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
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This is surprising for something that is supposed to require less hovering, especially if the host is out of hearing range of the device's alerts.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Opt for bigger hanging bulbs, discrete flickers, or even hanging sheaths.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
3 Apr. 2026
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To maintain the immersive illusion, Iñárritu eschewed traditional hanging fabric.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2026
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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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 8 Jun. 2026.
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