floating

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Created by the L.A.-based multimedia collective Everything Is Terrible, WoWoW is alternately described as a “cosmic entity” and a “cartoony, root vegetable floating alien god.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Hektoria Glacier, located on the Antarctic Peninsula, begins on land and extends into the ocean, where its outer section forms a floating mass of ice known as an "ice tongue."

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

“Some oil is floating on tankers, some is delayed, some is stranded and some production is temporarily shut in,” Innes said.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

Zhou declined to comment on whether the Hui Chan was serving as a floating armory when it was seized.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Did they actually look like doors, or were they merely great balls of light floating above the forest floor?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman