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[floht] / floʊt /


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"Liquid water is denser than ice, which makes ice cubes float. Jon's finding means that diamond would float in liquid carbon at high pressures."

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Residents spent months piecing together the rumors and clues that float through a small town.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Anyway, a casual tuber or kayaker can’t float all the way to the Pacific from Forestville.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

A safe self-rescue includes being able to tread water for 30 seconds, children being able to float on their back for 60 seconds and swim 15m to exit the water unaided.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

“Wait a second. What if I float too far away?”

From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan

A large number of people and floats took part in the Christopher Street Day event, which passed through the city, before moving through Tiergarten park, past the Victory Column monument, and towards the Brandenberg Gate.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

On stretches of waterfront, people linger in boats, kayaks and pool floats.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

The process created carbon-rich dust resembling material that floats through interstellar space and is preserved inside comets, asteroids and meteorites.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

Nolan floats a convincing psychological reason why this Odysseus subconsciously believes his duplicitous actions during the war deserve permanent exile from civilization.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Next came women on floats, on horseback, and on foot.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

The idea was floated by the campaign group Positive Money, which estimated it would raise £19bn a year.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Stuck in traffic on Interstate 84 on a Friday afternoon in August, driving toward the New Jersey shore, Rasmussen floated the idea of filling the channel with nothing but sports.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

When a friend and I first floated the idea of a Euro summer vacation, I could see the Instagram-perfect vision in my mind.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Buoys and flippers still littered the ground along the fence, while others floated in the water.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

You could float on your back because if you started to daydream you’d bump your head on the reef before you floated out to sea.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has documented a major change at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76 sq km section of the glacier's floating ice tongue broke away on August 4, 2026.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

There’s a floating population of eagles all over North America, “and many of those birds, when they reach four years of age, are now in the business of prospecting,” Bloom said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

The two men were found alive and floating inside a cool box, ordinarily used to store caught fish on a fishing boat.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

The good news is that City Council Speaker Julie Menin has been floating proposals aimed at reversing the rise in e-bike mayhem.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

It occurred to him that if his strength gave out before he reached shore, he could always hang on to a different tree or another stump or something else that was floating.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret




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