floated

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That was until a South Korean official floated the idea of giving excess corporate profits from AI to the country’s citizens as a sort of national dividend.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

US officials have floated an arrangement in which the three new military bases would be formally designated as US sovereign territory, according to one source with knowledge of the negotiations.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Last month, Texas billionaire John Arnold, who co-chairs the philanthropic organization Arnold Ventures, floated the compute-tax idea on X.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

“It scared enough people in the administration that you were gonna have a cybersecurity disaster that they floated this idea.”

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

Fred and I rode together, and the raft floated so well we would have been dry if we hadn’t got so wet getting on!

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr