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
Soon the other families abandoned their homes on the flatland and went up to the hills.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
The foreground is a scar of denuded earth, storage tanks and bobbing pumpjacks — the legacy of oil discovered a century ago when only farmhouses were scattered over the surrounding flatlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 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
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
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
When he treed a coon or possum in a persimmon tree or on a wild-grape vine, his voice would roll across the flatlands.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
