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landing

[lan-ding] / ˈlæn dɪŋ /


NOUN
act of a person/thing that lands
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That translates to the flu season landing about seven weeks earlier than in 2025 or 2024.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The error detected the computer was overloaded, and for a moment it looked like the complex landing might not be achieved.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Paul László’s “Atomville, U.S.A.,” a vision of suburbia half a century in the future, buried the family home beneath an earthen shell that doubled as a helicopter landing pad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The Kerr boys entered the foster system soon afterward, eventually landing in the care of a woman named Lisa McCarthy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Holding on to wrought-iron balustrades, guests would then ascend thirty stairs that curved upward to the first- floor landing, whose sky-blue ceiling that Daddy had replicated at our house was like the heavens.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Also, two-time major golf champion Bryson DeChambeau said that while it’s likely that moon landings have happened, some of the footage we’ve been shown might have been fake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Lucy Powell's comments came after two uncontrolled landings from the Channel in two days, at Folkestone and Samphire Hoe in Kent.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

But to get there, the two-time company founder is looking back more than 50 years to the space agency’s days of quick decision-making and innovation that led to the moon landings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Phase I of NASA's Moon Base architecture plan, which is underway now through 2029, calls for more than twenty robotic landings.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

“Come whenever you feel like it. Be careful; the stairs and landings are dark; don’t stumble.”

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin




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