HOVERED Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

hovered

verb

past tense of hover

as in floated

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air claimed that the UFO hovered a moment, then spun off into space at incredible speed

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Recent Examples of hovered The temperature hit 106 degrees at Chicago’s Midway Airport and hovered between the high 90s and low triple digits for the next five days. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026 Dark clouds hovered around the stadium just before kickoff, threatening to delay the start of the game, but Mother Nature apparently is a soccer fan, because the storm veered away. — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026 The share of younger adults living with parents hovered well below 30% in the early years of the new millennium. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 11 July 2026 Before the loss by the Stars and Stripes on Monday, the cheapest ticket hovered around $3,200 on TickPick. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 10 July 2026 But taken as a percentage of GDP, the US has hovered around 3% range -- less than Poland and Baltic allies. — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 6 July 2026 For about a decade, the number has hovered somewhere between 200,000 and 340,000 people. — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 6 July 2026 Temperatures across the Pyrenees have hovered around 35°C (95°F) over recent days, raising the possibility of wildfires. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 5 July 2026 Temperatures in the beach cities pleasantly hovered in the 70s, a stark contrast to East Coast communities broiling in a heat wave. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hovered

Verb

These collapses have haunted state Assemblymember Tasha Boerner (D-Encinitas), who first floated the idea of an early warning system.

— Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Anderson Cooper, and Erin Burnett, who is someone that White House officials allegedly floated as someone who could be replaced if new ownership takes over.

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026

Definition of floated

Verb

Twice England’s post was struck but when Enzo Fernández’s sublime strike sailed past Jordan Pickford in the 85th minute, there only ever felt like one winner.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Mbappé took his last shot in the game’s waning moments, to raucous cheers from the mostly Spanish crowd as the ball sailed over the goalpost.

— Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2026

Definition of sailed

Verb

In field tests across Lake Geneva, the machine swam through the lake before flapping its wings, breaking the water’s surface, and taking flight into the open air.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026
And none of us have swam in the ocean the same way since!

— Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 June 2026

Definition of swam

Verb

In the days before his Ford Bronco drifted into the path of an oncoming semi-truck, Matt Miller was settling debts.

— Alex Andrejev, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Microsoft tied itself tightly to OpenAI through a series of investments, but the two companies drifted and became competing with each other after the abrupt 2023 ousting and reinstatement of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, with little notice to Nadella.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 16 July 2026

Definition of drifted

Verb

Silent and purposeful, the pelicans cut through a raucous chaos of gulls at the end of the wharf and glided on into the marsh.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
An endless procession of black SUVs, Escalades, luxury coaches, polished muscle cars and Uber Blacks glided onto West 31st Street.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026