belly-landed

past tense of belly-land

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belly-landed
Verb
  • The crafts team behind the terrifying scenes in Paul Greengrass’s disaster movie The Lost Bus, inspired by the 2018 Camp Fire, one of the deadliest wildfires to ever hit California, touched down at Contenders London on Saturday.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Pettit’s latest space mission, a 220-day jaunt, concluded on his 70th birthday on April 20, when the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that carried him and his two crewmates touched down in the steppe of Kazakhstan.
    Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 lit the fuse on a rocket.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Inspired by Tehran’s kabab houses, Berenjak is a warm and candle-lit dining experience built around sharing.
    Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Andy Richter and Emma Slater landed a 28 out of 40 for their Rumba, dedicated to his daughter.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Keeping track of what both Pokémon are doing, each of their health bars, the animations for each attack and the battle log (which shows whether or not attacks have landed) takes a long time to get used to.
    Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On a late summer morning in the Pacific Palisades, dozens of hummingbirds rise from the ashes of Spencer Pratt‘s scorched hillside property, where his 2,200-square-foot, three-bedroom home once perched.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Dramatically perched on a cliffside, this gravity-defying marvel has weathered the rise and fall of empires.
    Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Belly-landed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belly-landed. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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