levitate

Example Sentences

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When interest rates started to rise, money market rates started levitating immediately, opening up a wide gap with bank deposit rates.

From New York Times

He’s present but not fully there, a tension Wiley heightens by having the chair that Obama is sitting in levitate.

From New York Times

Or as Harris puts it: “Why are we more likely to hear about the Yippies trying to levitate the Pentagon than SDS successfully bombing the Pentagon?”

From Los Angeles Times

When odd phenomena start to happen — the lease didn’t mention levitating, glowing crystals — the two men decide to film them for a documentary they hope will lead to Netflix riches.

From New York Times

This property lets researchers levitate magnets over a superconducting material as a fun experiment—and it could also lead to more efficient high-speed maglev trains.

From Scientific American