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Recent Examples of levitation
Which suggests that any changes in conductivity are coming from something else, like the contaminant highlighted by Jain.
About the levitation
But changes in conductivity aren't the only aspects of superconductivity that were originally reported for LK-99.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2023
To me, the levitation was a symbol of the profoundly dysfunctional relationship between Asher and Whitney.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
Those that fall are lifted out of the way, as if by levitation, then lowered back into place after each frame.
—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
So the students tried out a different solution — quantum levitation.
—Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2023
To me, the levitation was a symbol of the profoundly dysfunctional relationship between Asher and Whitney.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
Those that fall are lifted out of the way, as if by levitation, then lowered back into place after each frame.
—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
So the students tried out a different solution — quantum levitation.
—Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for levitation
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The May 6 attempt was scrubbed two hours before liftoff because of valve on ULA’s upper Centaur stage that teams continue to investigate.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Apr. 2025
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The first stage is the bottommost portion of the rocket with nine engines that fire up at liftoff, powering the 230-foot (70-meter) vehicle off the ground.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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And last Friday, a Delta Air Lines flight departing the airport experienced a close call just after takeoff as four Air Force jets were headed toward a flyover at Arlington National Cemetary.—
Kris Van Cleave,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2025
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The second crash, on March 10, 2019, happened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when a Boeing aircraft crashed minutes after takeoff and killed 157 people onboard.—
Clara McMichael,
ABC News,
24 Mar. 2025
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Patrick Abrahamsen, 45, a search-and-rescue hoist operator for Air Greenland, told NBC News that his opinion of his country’s relationship with America has changed since Trump took office.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
28 Mar. 2025
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The elevator division of the city Buildings Department later learned that the repairman was in the pit of the dumbwaiter shaft, working on the hoist cables, when the dumbwaiter cab plummeted on top of him.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2025
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A number of Pacific Northwest ski resorts, especially at higher elevations, could see 1-2 feet of new snow.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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Temperatures will barely top the freezing mark in Buffalo while high elevation areas of New York and New England could be stuck in the 20s Tuesday afternoon.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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Indeed, the complexities of contract negotiations extended far beyond the final proposals of 4% cost-of-living increases for teachers’ raises and thousands of additional staff members.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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While inflation has cooled considerably from its peak above 9% in June 2022, the Federal Reserve wants to drive the annual rate of price increases to 2%, a goal that remains elusive.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2025
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The most recent amendment, ratified in 1992, prevents members of Congress from granting themselves pay raises during a current session.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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The raise also came after the NBA coaching market was reset that summer when the Detroit Pistons hired Monty Williams with a six-year, $78.5 million contract.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov were strapped in and ready for blastoff from historic pad 39 at the Kennedy Space Center at 7:48 p.m. EDT.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Super Heavy-Starship on its Gulf Coast launch pad Thursday being fueled for blastoff.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Taken aback by the thrust and speed of his initiatives, many countries have bent the knee.—
MATIAS SPEKTOR,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Apr. 2025
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This will include the landing structure, the large propulsion system used in the final braking thrust, and the gear to stabilize the lander once on the surface.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Levitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/levitation. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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