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How to use the word buoyant in a Sentence?

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[He was] still able to see the goodness in humanity, still buoyant with a beautiful spirit that lifted everyone around him, not because he was blind to the ugliness, the injustices of the world – no. He saw them clearly. He had lived them. But because he knew we could overcome them.

Prince Harry

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So, if I have a workday with a lot of meetings, maybe I need to be a little more chipper and buoyant. Maybe I need to be more laser-focused because it is a heavy writing day. Those are different energies.

Broderick Sawyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The reason why we train underwater is because we actually wear real spacesuits, we do real tasks and we feel like we are weightless, when actually we're just neutrally buoyant so we're floating.

Astronaut Mike Fincke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

PMI readings for Asia suggest that manufacturing sectors improved further in most places. Buoyant global demand for electronics should continue to support the sector for at least the next few months.

Alex Holmes

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

However, given it will be classed as a 'trophy asset', buyers might not be put off by a financial performance that doesn't reflect the sale price, whether it's an inflated price or not, this should not be seen as an indication of the buoyant hotel market in the UK in a wider context, primarily because the Ritz is almost a 'one-off.'.

Paul Olliff

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The pumice gets waterlogged or negatively buoyant and sinks to the sea floor and gets logged and stuck there, then those plants and animals and Great Barrier Reef can then continue to grow and grow in this new location.

Scott Bryan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It all ties back to the smartphone market outlook, which is not really buoyant at this point.

Kiranjeet Kaur

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When copper is trading at $7,000 rather than $3,000, the market is more buoyant and people are more buoyant, i do see there's opportunity in the space, and the space is less crowded than it was five years ago.

Andy Gooch

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The near-term growth outlook has turned more buoyant due to recent policy support, the medium-term outlook, however, is more uncertain due to rapidly rising credit, structural excess capacity, and the increasingly large, opaque, and interconnected financial sector.

David Lipton

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It was a wonderful week, energy was strong, gold was strong, the Canadian dollar firmed and there was a much more buoyant mood. It's just inevitable profit-taking.

John Ing

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We and the industry are facing unprecedented headwinds, for example from interest rates, which have pressured net interest margins in all of our businesses and from macroeconomic and political uncertainties that have contributed to huge risk aversion among our clients, industry activity levels in investment banking advisory have slowed markedly year on year, and, while equity volumes in the US are buoyant, flat volumes in Europe and sharp declines in Asia do not favor our geographic mix.

Sergio Ermotti

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For me, China is a short blip rather than a real slowdown. What we are hearing from company management is pretty buoyant.

Ingo Speich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Demand is reasonably buoyant in the United States, but there's just so much supply, it's going to need a significant pickup in economic activity to meet the current oversupply.

Le Brun

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The German growth picture seems to be more mixed than buoyant sentiment indicators have been suggesting, today's data have created uncertainty, rather than clarity.

Carsten Brzeski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

European markets remain buoyant, not just because of low yields but it seems that finally economic activity and confidence are ticking up from the lows.

Lex Van Dam

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have lot of stores in Japan and I think it's a really exciting market there. The United States is very buoyant at the moment as well, so I think the whole world is feeling more confident in a way.

Designer Anya Hindmarch

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

These abrupt market movements (in October) were even more pronounced than similar developments in August, when a sudden correction in global financial markets was quickly succeeded by renewed buoyant market conditions, this suggests that more than a quantum of fragility underlies the current elevated mood in financial markets.

The BIS

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Alexander MacLaren

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders --now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.

Wyndham Lewis

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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