How to keep window "floating" in front

I used to know the trick, but have forgotten. How do I keep a window "floating" on top??

One way is to browse your iTunes Music Library in the Finder and open the video file with QuickTime instead of playing it in iTunes. Then you have always-on-top and also fixes the "full screen on 2nd monitor" problem. Maybe not ideal, but a workaround.

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