levitate

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This causes microdroplets to levitate and jump off the surface within milliseconds at lower temperatures because the speed of boiling can be controlled by changing the height of the pillars.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2024

Those droplets constantly off-gas carbon dioxide, causing them to levitate slightly above the surfaces they sit on.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024

It’s the spell you cast to levitate something.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

The Wall Street journal quoted him as predicting that “we could magnetically levitate trains above superconducting rails, change the way electricity is stored and transferred, and revolutionize medical imaging.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

“Well, I can never levitate anything right, so we ’re even,” Widget says, but he takes her cup without complaint and concentrates until it too is steaming and hot again.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern