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Recent Examples of floaty
Light, floaty, and romantic, Pottery Barn’s voile bed skirt could easily skew frilly—but bright white cotton and sleek elegant folds help the design steer clear of fuss.
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Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 20 Jan. 2026
Even one in a sheer floaty fabric as seen above, can carry you through the cold when paired with warm layers underneath and a toasty faux fur on top.
—Krista Carter, InStyle, 18 Jan. 2026
The other, by the ceramic artist Katie Stout, is floored in a chunky mosaic and walled in her monstrous watercolors of floaty ladies.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Dec. 2025
Overall drive quality is floaty and somewhat disconnected, but not terribly so.
—New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2025
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Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 20 Jan. 2026
Even one in a sheer floaty fabric as seen above, can carry you through the cold when paired with warm layers underneath and a toasty faux fur on top.
—Krista Carter, InStyle, 18 Jan. 2026
The other, by the ceramic artist Katie Stout, is floored in a chunky mosaic and walled in her monstrous watercolors of floaty ladies.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Dec. 2025
Overall drive quality is floaty and somewhat disconnected, but not terribly so.
—New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floaty
Adjective
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Companies with a smaller market value generally tend to have more floating rate debt than larger businesses.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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Social media posts and years of reviewing cookie-cutter luxury hotels had conditioned me to equate floating breakfasts, monogrammed accessories, butler service, and aromatherapy menus as markers of a dreamy luxury vacation.—
Katherine Alex Beaven,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The black expanse of thin, dense and relatively young basalt from those centers stands in stark contrast to thicker, more buoyant continental crust, which is primarily granite but contains the full gamut of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks and can be billions of years old.—
Evan Howell,
Scientific American,
4 Feb. 2026
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There are weak patches, but the four actors (Wilde, MVP Seth Rogen, Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz) keep it buoyant, with a crackling energy that makes the endless streams of overlapping talk play like jazz.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Floaty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floaty. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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