land with
phrasal verb
landed with; landing with; lands with
British, informal
: to force (someone) to deal with (something or someone unpleasant)
I always get landed with the washing-up.
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Whether his telling will land with readers remains to be seen, but the memoir draws new attention to Newsom’s undeniable success in the wine and restaurant business.
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Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026
For a founder whose identity is intertwined with building software and championing AI progress, the realization his own product could outperform his ideas landed with unusual force.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
Homan’s test about when physical force should be used also didn’t land with his audience.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
The show is light on tech, but the accompanying images (video design by Stefano DeCarli) pour through as addendums to Felder’s puissant passion of Liszt’s Liebesträume or Beethoven’s Für Elise and land with great effect.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2026
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Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026
For a founder whose identity is intertwined with building software and championing AI progress, the realization his own product could outperform his ideas landed with unusual force.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
Homan’s test about when physical force should be used also didn’t land with his audience.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
The show is light on tech, but the accompanying images (video design by Stefano DeCarli) pour through as addendums to Felder’s puissant passion of Liszt’s Liebesträume or Beethoven’s Für Elise and land with great effect.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Land with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/land%20with. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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