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
“I think a lot of it is that we populate the scene between the flatland of L.A. and the Griffith Park hill.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
Louis said Parker's best discipline is flatland BMX - doing tricks on the ground, without the use of ramps, however, for Parker, he enjoys the more extreme side.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2024
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 British architectural critic Reyner Banham wrote about the region’s four ecologies: the coast, the foothills, the flatlands and the freeways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Given these troops have been trained to fight in the mountainous Korean Peninsula, the defectors question how well they will adapt to fighting on the flatlands and in the trenches of Kursk.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
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
“That is what is creating this level of distrust. It’s like living in Russia or China,” he said, instead of the fertile flatlands of Flanders in northwestern Belgium.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 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
