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buoyancy

[boi-uhn-see, boo-yuhn-see] / ˈbɔɪ ən si, ˈbu jən si /
NOUN
tendency to float
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“I want to keep working with interesting people,” he says with his trademark buoyancy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Value stocks—defined by Trivariate as the cheapest fifth of stocks by forward price/earnings—enjoy some degree of buoyancy after a big drop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Shallower lithospheric buoyancy forces appear to play a major role in the more typical stretching of the rift.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

To create a split-level image, he turned his camera upside down to aid buoyancy distribution and slowly moved towards the curious fish.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

To say that the lithosphere floats on top of the asthenosphere suggests a degree of easy buoyancy that isn’t quite right.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Abandoned ideals and buoyancies can be seen within.

From Time Magazine Archive

But beneath it all, there are two buoyancies.

From Time Magazine Archive




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