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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
float at en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To present or make available (something) to (someone); offer, especially prospectively.
The word imposter was floated at me a few times. I can still feel the sting of those words sometimes when I hit an emotional low point.
2014, Thomas S. Weinberg, Staci Newmahr, Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities:
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(transitive) To come to (a person) gradually but without warning.
Just as quickly as the thought arrived, he was enveloped by the Portal's cloud. Wow, he thought, you have just got to stop surprising me like that! O.K., what now? More “job interviews” with future prospective employers who float at you with an “I come in peace” motivation? Or, maybe something more mundane like stopping a world war!
2013, Timothy J. O'Leary III, The Dimensional Gateway:“In your mind, whether you want to or not, you immediately start to say goodbye and just make final (arrangements) just to grandkids, your neighbors and all that,” she said of learning of her diagnosis. “But hope has floated at me from every angle at West Jefferson.”
2013, Andrea Shaw, Alla, West Jefferson Medical Center float pays tribute to cancer patients, survivors:
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