land
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Back on land, the crew donned blazers and burned an old wooden scull in Peterhouse’s garden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
And with every request comes an unspoken plea for understanding, no matter how far into the land of make-believe they’re asking to be led.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
To Mazeh, the exhibition "created a comfortable place where people could come and feel close to their land".
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Dry land encourages higher temperatures because less of the Sun's energy is used in evaporating moisture, leaving more available to heat the ground and the air.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Tala Leprosarium is located in the isolated foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains on 1,500 acres of rich, rolling land and sloped terrain.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Which is why “you can afford it” never lands.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
President Trump recently rescinded executive orders that restricted off-roading on federal public lands, but other rules remain on place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
For more than a century, neuroscientists have studied the human brain much as early cartographers mapped unknown lands: piecing together a vast landscape from scattered observations.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
A major challenge is controlling what happens after each droplet lands on a surface.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Her lunch flies out of her hands, and she lands splat on her butt on the floor.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
A British military task force ejected Argentine forces, who had landed on the Falklands to stake a territorial claim.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
In 1951, Marcus landed at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn as an assistant professor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
His son landed on the kit as his birthday present while watching the national team play Turkey on June 25.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
England struggled to break down Norway's settled defensive shape but when Orjan Nyland's goal-kick landed at Anderson's feet, their 4-5-1 was disjointed.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
When they landed, the first thing he could hear was the sea.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
“And as he said, as we feel, it’s the pitching and the torque of landing on that leg that kind of gets it upset.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
SpaceX will aspire the next time around to execute a launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn and landing burn of the booster offshore without hiccups.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
The embarrassing stories kept landing, and the man in charge of the Pentagon now needs the Justice Department’s help to plug a hole he cannot plug alone.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
A 200-foot-long vessel with a helicopter landing pad, the Emerald was operated by Russia’s FSB security service, rather than its regular military, according to the post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Small planes landing on the ice and taking off.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
