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
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
On Monday, an incoming typhoon which turned into a tropical storm forced organisers to call quits and evacuate all participants from the Saemangeum area- a vast, treeless flatland.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
This man was different: it would have been easy for him to hunt in the flatland, where there were wide skies and light, but he chose instead to go into dark and thick forests.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
The bulk of homes were in the flatlands, built on a grid with multiple escape routes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025
Geological Survey calls the Buttes “a remarkable geographic and geologic feature” emerging from what are otherwise flatlands extending out for miles.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
These are the flatlands where the Balkan mountains slope down to the River Danube.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
The adaptation of Tobias Wolff’s acclaimed memoir about his youth in the mountains of upper Skagit County developed a cult following among his teenage friends and family in the flatlands of Michigan.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
I could not see how people could stand to live in the flatlands when they could live in the hills.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
