floated

verb

Definition of floatednext
past tense of float
1
as in hovered
to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air a canoe floating down the river particles of dust floating in the air

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2
as in wandered
to move about from place to place aimlessly lost touch with a childhood friend who spent much of his adult life floating from place to place

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Recent Examples of floated While the San Francisco Giants have been floated as a potential threat to steal Alonso from the Mets, could the Seattle Mariners be another one? — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025 One of the ideas floated in recent years has been to continue limiting the deduction but make the cap higher. — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 3 Jan. 2025 Her name has been frequently floated as a candidate for a pre-emptive pardon by Bardon. — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for floated
  1. hovered
  2. wandered
  3. roamed
Verb
  • Temperatures in the city hovered around the upper-30s on Friday, with a major drop in the forecast predicted for the weekend.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Earlier in the week, the digital asset touched a fresh all-time high of $108,000 and hovered around $102,000 on Thursday.
    — Brian Evans,Sean Conlon, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of hovered
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  • And wandered around in the alleyway behind her florist job in Venice.
    — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Betsy, her Elf on the Shelf, had wandered off.
    — Seth Carnell, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of wandered
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  • For the past 12 months our photographers have roamed hotel rooms, celebrity homes and even hideaways of the Hollywood Bowl in search of transcendent shots of Hollywood and arts figures in their element.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The mastodon, a distant relative of modern elephants, roamed the region thousands of years ago.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 19 Dec. 2024
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