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Recent Examples of free-floatingOf 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 Thus, if free-floating planetary mass objects are indeed brown dwarfs, the sheer number of them seen as binary systems is difficult to explain.—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025 Braxton, a globe-trotting killer for hire, is an ideal foil for Chris — a gleeful, filter-free mercenary who loves luxury goods and beating people up, but who is, like his brother, has been living a free-floating life that lacks meaningful connections.—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for free-floating
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.
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Dakin Andone,
CNN Money,
10 Apr. 2025
The neutral material keeps it from looking like an eye sore and can be expanded for more hanging space as needed.
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.
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Katherine Alex Beaven,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Oct. 2024
The boat, a single motorboat, was found floating and half-submerged near the Harbor One Marina.
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