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Verb

1. 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:
2. 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...
   • “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...