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
"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
But the oil giant ConocoPhillips is already in motion, massing equipment and flying in workers and provisions to this vast frozen flatland 250 miles above the Arctic Circle.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 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
Ukrainians argue that stopping the Russians if they reached the flatlands would be much harder.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
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
“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
When she reached the top, Roz saw flatlands sprawling out before her.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
