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Meaning of float at | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To present or make available to; offer, especially prospectively.
  2. To arrive without warning, but not suddenly.

Examples

“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.”
“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!”
““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.””

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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