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  • adjective tending to sink in a liquid or fall in air

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Examples

  • Therefore spindly akas and non-buoyant amas are no longer of any use check the ferry in the top photo again and must be discarded in favour of far more buoyant and sturdy amas, as in photos 3 and 4.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Therefore spindly akas and non-buoyant amas are no longer of any use check the ferry in the top photo again and must be discarded in favour of far more buoyant and sturdy amas, as in photos 3 and 4.

    [ferry disaster] greed and ignorance 2008

  • The others swam, or in the case of non-buoyant animals like tortoises, they windsurfed until it was time for them to be rotated onto the boat.

    Rebooting Creationism 2005

  • The others swam, or in the case of non-buoyant animals like tortoises, they windsurfed until it was time for them to be rotated onto the boat.

    08/28/2005 - 09/04/2005 2005

  • The others swam, or in the case of non-buoyant animals like tortoises, they windsurfed until it was time for them to be rotated onto the boat.

    Archive 2005-08-28 2005

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