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
"I was raised in Delta dirt, sunshine and flatland that goes on for miles and miles," she sings, as people nod their heads and stomp their feet to the beat.
From BBC ● May 31, 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
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
In North Hollywood, a denser mix of small apartments, mixed-use complexes and single-family homes with casitas fills the flatlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Its history is short: it has only existed since 2005, raised out of the flatlands by the then military rulers of Myanmar, which was previously known as Burma.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025
Geological Survey calls the Buttes “a remarkable geographic and geologic feature” emerging from what are otherwise flatlands extending out for miles.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
Gilchrist was born in 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and spent part of her childhood on a remote plantation in the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Many towns have enacted laws that prevent people from building on flatlands near the water.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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