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landing

[lan-ding] / ˈlæn dɪŋ /


NOUN
act of a person/thing that lands
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He led the Rangers to a junior college national championship and then transferred to East Carolina, before eventually landing at Washington State.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Alhough I’ve never been good at making friends, I’ve always succeeded at landing boyfriends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Before landing, however, they experienced additional melting and fragmentation while continuing to lose speed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

But von der Leyen used the term after landing in Montreal on Wednesday, saying the sides will "start discussing how to make Canada the first associate member of the EU."

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

It wasn’t landing on my back that knocked the air out of me.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Canada and US lobster landings have been roughly equal over the years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

However, since flights between the U.A.E. and Israel began after they diplomatically recognized each other in 2020, there have been incidents where Israel-bound planes have made emergency landings in the kingdom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Rather, their plan is to scale up so-called Operation Carpet, under which drones circulate near Russian airports, forcing air-traffic control to pause takeoffs and landings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

But I’m so thankful to be alive right now, he could take credit for the faked lunar landings and I wouldn’t care.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman


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