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float

verb as in lie on the surface

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New details about a floating public garden, which will be part of a nearly $5-billion luxury housing and hotel complex, were unveiled on Thursday by its London-based developer.

Wagner is supportive of playing a match overseas in the United States, with the club having floated the idea of playing Wrexham there last season.

From BBC

Sable notes that use of a floating treatment vessel would dramatically extend the project’s timeline and likely increase costs for the company, which has already reported funding difficulties after repeated setbacks.

She travels to Savannah’s Bonaventure graveyard, abutting the Wilmington River, “where shrimp boats float, a mostly silent river that is only audible when a breeze shakes the trees and you hear the water whisper.”

She performs it in a gondola, floating down the catwalk as she flees the chaos of the main stage for the sanctuary of her piano.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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