landing
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The sweetness of the vegetables became more nuanced instead of landing like a sledgehammer.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The mission landing is still regarded, however, as an historic success for the European Space Agency which has subsequently influenced future exploration.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Unable to see the area through the tall grass, Luce looked at the map on his smartphone to find a suitable landing zone for a medevac helicopter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Brian Oswald, a 69-year-old retired forestry professor from Nacogdoches, Texas, came straight to Oktoberfest after landing on an overnight flight from the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
He stops on the landing and turns to face me.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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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
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
The system will have dual landings in India – at Machilipatnam, providing a shorter subsea route to Hyderabad, and at a new landing location in South Chennai, adding diversity to existing routes.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
Operation Forager was under the command of Admiral Nimitz, and Marine General Holland Smith was in charge of the amphibious landings.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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