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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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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?
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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
The country also hopes about 10 percent of the digital nomads who flock to the country will remain there, the Taipei Times reported last year when the idea was first floated.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2025
The two leaders have floated tinkering with the audit law even after residents approved it in the fall.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
The song floated past Carpenter's with 1,775,172,881 streams last year.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
After Belinda helped resort guest Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) mourn the death of her father, Tanya floated the idea of financing Belinda's dreams of opening her own wellness business.
—Esther Kang, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
Safe syringe programs were floated in the legislature, and a $600,000 investment was made in recovery homes overseen by the Department of Community and Economic Development and the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs.
—Christina Lengyel | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
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
The country also hopes about 10 percent of the digital nomads who flock to the country will remain there, the Taipei Times reported last year when the idea was first floated.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2025
The two leaders have floated tinkering with the audit law even after residents approved it in the fall.
—Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
The song floated past Carpenter's with 1,775,172,881 streams last year.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
After Belinda helped resort guest Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) mourn the death of her father, Tanya floated the idea of financing Belinda's dreams of opening her own wellness business.
—Esther Kang, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
Safe syringe programs were floated in the legislature, and a $600,000 investment was made in recovery homes overseen by the Department of Community and Economic Development and the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs.
—Christina Lengyel | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for floated
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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
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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
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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
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Betsy, her Elf on the Shelf, had wandered off.—
Seth Carnell,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
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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
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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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“Floated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floated. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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