flatland
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The partners leased their first of three parcels of barren flatland for around $25,000 a month, anchored by a dilapidated ranch house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
And much of the flatland area that McNeill views as most appropriate for development is restricted by open space easements purchased by the county in the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
"I was raised in Delta dirt, sunshine and flatland that goes on for miles and miles," she sings, as people nod their heads and stomp their feet to the beat.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
In other world championships decided Thursday, Yu Shoji of Japan won the men’s BMX freestyle flatland competition and Aude Cassagne of France took the women’s title.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
It was a lovely sensation, one the agent had always appreciated, catapulting from the twisty dark gorge onto that flatland, with a straight highway aiming exactly north.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
The Cool Patch maze, which rises from the flatlands near Interstate 80 just before the Sacramento Valley rolls up into the Vaca Mountains, got ever larger and more creative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
Leland is in the flatlands of cotton and soybean country and has a population of about 3,900.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
These are the flatlands where the Balkan mountains slope down to the River Danube.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
Homer French resides in a mountain wilderness, dry and sparsely populated, with panoramic views that include hazy intimations of gridded settlement in the flatlands below.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
Finally we reached some conclusions: To find a cave, we would have to go where there were mountains—there aren’t many caves in flatlands.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
