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Recent Examples of free-floatingThe 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
The drones then find the best hovering altitude before each lining up to spray the fire, one after the other.
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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.
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