free-floating

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Recent Examples of free-floating But instead of tackling the matter at hand, almost every scene is weighed down by a free-floating and at times annoyingly intrusive indie-film attitude. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Apr. 2025 Astronomers, who sometimes like to kill fun, call these worlds free-floating planets, which is not nearly as cool a term. Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025 This strange world is free-floating, not bound to any star, and boasts a surface temperature of around 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025 The search turned up free-floating objects roughly two to three times the mass of Jupiter. Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for free-floating

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“Free-floating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free-floating. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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