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Recent Examples of free-floating
During the tests, Olympus was mounted upside-down on one of ORBIT's floating platforms, which glides on a thin cushion of air across an ultra-flat floor without any friction, reproducing a state of weightless free-floating in two dimensions, similar to how pucks float on an air hockey table.
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Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 9 Aug. 2025
At the heart of each LISA spacecraft are two free-floating golden cubes, about the size of a Rubik’s cube.
—Tereza Pultarova, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2025
In this process, nuclei collect neutral, free-floating subatomic particles called neutrons.
—Jenna Ahart, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2025
But there’s also a sort of a free-floating anxiety about Agnes, along with a dash of insecurity.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
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Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 9 Aug. 2025
At the heart of each LISA spacecraft are two free-floating golden cubes, about the size of a Rubik’s cube.
—Tereza Pultarova, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2025
In this process, nuclei collect neutral, free-floating subatomic particles called neutrons.
—Jenna Ahart, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2025
But there’s also a sort of a free-floating anxiety about Agnes, along with a dash of insecurity.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 June 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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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
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“Free-floating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free-floating. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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