levitate
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"We can levitate objects against gravity by immersing them in a sound field called a standing wave."
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026
Those droplets constantly off-gas carbon dioxide, causing them to levitate slightly above the surfaces they sit on.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024
His narrator, Richard, is the least shiny of a golden foursome whose youth, beauty and careless wealth allow them to levitate somewhere over Sydney Harbor, happily encased in the champagne bubble of their bottomless self-regard.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 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
“Some in infancy; others not until they’re quite old. I once heard of a man who didn’t realize he could levitate objects with his mind until he was ninety-two years of age.”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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