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 autonomous food delivery droid robots hovered on top of the food truck counter as if the surface were a stage. — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2026 But things went sideways when the drone hovered above Austen’s pool and dropped the package into the water. — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 The Coast Guard hovered above him in the ocean off Orange County and hoisted him to safety. — Michele Gile, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 That is how much bitcoin prices have fallen since the start of the year, when prices for the cryptocurrency hovered around the $89,000 mark. — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 In addition, jobless claims have hovered around 200,000 a week, and the number of job openings has been rising over the past six months, Slok pointed out. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026 Statewide voter turnout in partisan primaries has typically hovered around 25%. — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Between 2002 to 2014, sequels hovered somewhere between 20 to 30 percent of the overall annual box office, with a few peaks and valleys in between. — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2026 As temperatures hovered around 80 degrees and few clouds obscured a bright blue sky, many people took the opportunity to enjoy a summer day last week at Montrose Beach. — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026

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Restrictions on energy, electricity or critical minerals, something Ford also floated, could instead raise costs for American companies and consumers by making key inputs more expensive or harder to obtain.

— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
Trump floated renaming Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes, amid growing trade tensions with Canada.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of floated

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David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia had already reported results that sailed past estimates by the time CFO Colette Kress came into the earnings call with a stunning forecast for next year.

— Kif Leswing, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Milton, though, was flushed from the pocket, and a late throw to Brown sailed out of bounds.

— Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of sailed

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The Piper remained largely intact as Tenkley, wearing a bikini, swam away from the aircraft with the help of a lifeguard who arrived in moments to assist.

— Eric Mack, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Those who took part swam 1,500 meters in Lake Michigan, bicycled nearly 25 miles, and then ran a 10k.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026