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Recent Examples of free-floatingMost cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later.—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025 In 2016, Yolanda Hadid got her breast implants removed on an episode of Real Housewives, after learning there was free-floating silicone in her body.—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025 If luck holds, the then free-floating embryo develops into a larvae, which settles on a reef and begins life as a coral polyp.—Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025 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.—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 9 Aug. 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.
Companies with a smaller market value generally tend to have more floating rate debt than larger businesses.
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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.
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Katherine Alex Beaven,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Oct. 2024
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