free-floating

A dollar gauge is on track for its worst performance during the first 100 days of a U.S. presidency in data going back to the Nixon era, when America abandoned the gold standard and switched to a free-floating exchange rate.

Serving as an introduction to an engaging new artistic voice, the film captures a certain laconic, free-floating malaise and anxiety that are indicative of an emergent generational sensibility.

Free-floating DNA—any that is not contained within a cell—is then isolated from the sample and sequenced.

In Moore, the court majority thankfully rejected a crazy argument, key to Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 elections, that state legislatures have free-floating power in federal elections to do whatever they want in appointing electors, changing rules, unencumbered by state courts, state constitutions, governors, and other state actors.

I am not going to link here to the two dozen articles I have written in the years since 2016, attempting to graft agreed-upon meanings to free-floating Trumpian output because, like the rest of the press, I once mistakenly believed that politics, policy, law, and elected office somehow correlated to language and words with shared public meaning.