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 might run through your head as a young girl spreads jam on a piece of bread, or as a multitude of floating, smiling white puffballs, known as warawara, levitate blissfully skyward.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2023

It’s the spell you cast to levitate something.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Then she raises her hand, and I levitate off the floor.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas