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
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
On Monday, an incoming typhoon which turned into a tropical storm forced organisers to call quits and evacuate all participants from the Saemangeum area- a vast, treeless flatland.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
Rather than deal with the wild animals, who seemed to be everywhere on the flatland, they decided to go in search of food up in the hills.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
The British architectural critic Reyner Banham wrote about the region’s four ecologies: the coast, the foothills, the flatlands and the freeways.
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
“That is what is creating this level of distrust. It’s like living in Russia or China,” he said, instead of the fertile flatlands of Flanders in northwestern Belgium.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
These are the flatlands where the Balkan mountains slope down to the River Danube.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
But little of this good fortune spilled over into the flatlands of East Oakland, where Richard lived.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
