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Recent Examples of free-floating
The silica was then left free-floating as the X-ray burst hit it.
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Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
Several brought their friends and grown children to my informal meetings, which became a kind of free-floating focus group spread across states that had once been economic powerhouses but were now economic basket cases.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2024
Instead of definition, the staging gives us a muddle of free-floating feeling.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
In the inner solar system—this side of Jupiter—the proximity of the sun causes both free-floating water and water entrained on bodies like asteroids to flash into vapor.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
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Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
Several brought their friends and grown children to my informal meetings, which became a kind of free-floating focus group spread across states that had once been economic powerhouses but were now economic basket cases.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2024
Instead of definition, the staging gives us a muddle of free-floating feeling.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
In the inner solar system—this side of Jupiter—the proximity of the sun causes both free-floating water and water entrained on bodies like asteroids to flash into vapor.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Free-floating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free-floating. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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