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Recent Examples of levitation
Seven months later, playing for Team USA at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Carter capped his year of levitation by jumping over France’s 7-2 center, Frederic Weis, en route to a violent, yet somehow, also, elegant, slam in a preliminary round game.
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Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Engineering and Applied Science is taking a major step in ultra-high-temperature ceramics research by establishing a pioneering electromagnetic levitation (EML) system.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2025
Urged by the Wizard and Madame Morrible to grant the Wizard's monkey captain of the guard, Chistery, the power of levitation, Elphaba reads a spell that causes Chistery—along with the rest of the palace's monkeys—to undergo a painful wing-sprouting transformation against their will.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
The capsule operated autonomously with onboard power for propulsion and levitation.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2024
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Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Engineering and Applied Science is taking a major step in ultra-high-temperature ceramics research by establishing a pioneering electromagnetic levitation (EML) system.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2025
Urged by the Wizard and Madame Morrible to grant the Wizard's monkey captain of the guard, Chistery, the power of levitation, Elphaba reads a spell that causes Chistery—along with the rest of the palace's monkeys—to undergo a painful wing-sprouting transformation against their will.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
The capsule operated autonomously with onboard power for propulsion and levitation.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for levitation
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The tech-heavy index enjoyed a liftoff from Nvidia and Microsoft, both of which reached all-time highs (and probably made some insiders at Nvidia multi-millionaires over the past month).—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
30 June 2025
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The first-stage booster made a successful 21st liftoff, but was expended to get the satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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Max lost a piece of its fuselage known as a mid-exit door (MED) plug shortly after takeoff.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
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An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing Wednesday morning in Las Vegas when witnesses said an engine caught fire shortly after takeoff.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
25 June 2025
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As one hoist of the Larry O’Brien Trophy would reveal, misfit champions are still champions.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
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Many of them were engineering marvels, with state-of-the-art mills, engines and hoists.—
Richard Grant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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Researchers thought colder temperatures and higher elevations could stop the march of invasive fire ants.—
Gareth McGrath,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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Butler had been a Panther himself, and had resented Pratt’s elevation as Los Angeles leader.—
Christopher Goffard,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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One reported a 60% increase in sales within four months, while another saved 30-hours per week on decision-making processes, according to Medone.—
Sonia Osorio,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2025
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The new pictures represent a significant increase in detail that is primarily owed to Biomass’s main instrument: the P-band synthetic aperture radar.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
1 July 2025
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Without that money, the city wouldn’t be able to afford the raises.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
3 July 2025
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Maybe all supervisors can revisit the vote and donate the raises back to county taxpayers.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
2 July 2025
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The Super Heavy-Starship on its Gulf Coast launch pad Thursday being fueled for blastoff.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov were strapped in and ready for blastoff from historic pad 39 at the Kennedy Space Center at 7:48 p.m. EDT.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2025
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The thrust of Verdigets’ early focus would be business fundamentals — building a holding structure for Nateland, assessing and fine-tuning the company’s revenue-cost ratio, and helping to define its five key verticals, including Touring, Digital, TV/Film, Experiences, and Products and Merchandise.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
23 June 2025
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Super Heavy alone is powered by 33 of SpaceX’s Raptor engines that give the initial burst of thrust at liftoff.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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“Levitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/levitation. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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