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Recent Examples of crash-land
Some ibises crash-landed, while a couple of others flew off and went missing for hours.
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Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
There’s a more than 1% chance the asteroid will make its way toward Earth and crash-land on the planet in December 2032.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
Where to watch:Netflix ‘The Wild Robot’ A service robot named Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong'o) crash-lands on an island full of animals, which is not what she was programmed to handle.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Things go from routine to catastrophic when the team’s helicopter gets blown off course in a freak storm and crash-lands in the DPRK.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
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Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
There’s a more than 1% chance the asteroid will make its way toward Earth and crash-land on the planet in December 2032.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
Where to watch:Netflix ‘The Wild Robot’ A service robot named Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong'o) crash-lands on an island full of animals, which is not what she was programmed to handle.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
Things go from routine to catastrophic when the team’s helicopter gets blown off course in a freak storm and crash-lands in the DPRK.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crash-land
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Jeju Air's Boeing 737-800 burst into flames after it belly-landed at Muan International Airport in South Korea, killing all but two people on board.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
11 Jan. 2025
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In the worst air disaster in South Korean history, 179 people were killed when a Boeing 737-800 belly-landed and skidded off the runway at Muan International Airport.—
David Hodari,
NBC News,
3 Jan. 2025
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For Wolf to land in the 65th percentile, his GSAx would have to be closer to 5.3.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
The Athletic,
22 Feb. 2025
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In August 2023, Barlow was a defense witness at a court hearing over the state’s effort to limit some records related to the FBI’s use in the case of an advanced DNA technique called investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG, which first landed on Kohberger as the suspect.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
22 Feb. 2025
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Which of course will be followed by dancing and fireworks alighting the sky above.—
Jennifer Leigh Parker,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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The rock had alighted on farmland owned by Bush’s landlord, a white judge named Allen Cox.—
Zoë Hopkins,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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The booster returned to Earth about eight minutes after launch like the legions of its predecessors, touching down on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions stationed offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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People living near Pelican Lake Reserve and environmental activists began to notice that as trash and construction rubble piled up and sewage gurgled into the water, fewer and fewer birds were touching down there each winter.—
Raad al-Remi,
The Christian Science Monitor,
26 Feb. 2025
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But as the spending boom waned, some retailers saw problems with their businesses come home to roost.—
Cory Smith,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Feb. 2025
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Flames encroached on the trees where butterflies roosted and, while the tree grove remains standing but singed, the status of butterflies is unclear.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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By that logic, try lighting a candle after spritzing the mist to layer home scents.—
Jenny Berg,
Allure,
20 Feb. 2025
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Told to make their own way, Abdullah trudged six miles on a path lighted only by the glow from her phone as rain turned the ground to mud.—
Isabel Debre,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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The tabby is not only engrossed but also sitting on a small plastic chair like a human, with a toy fish perched on his chest.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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Called the Augusta Apartment, the 1,500-square-foot space is perched atop the legendary restaurant and boasts expansive views over the Seine and the famous cathedral.—
Rhonda Richford,
WWD,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Crash-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crash-land. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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