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as in dock
a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers our families waved good-bye to us from the landing as we left on our honeymoon cruise

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verb

present participle of land
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as in arriving
to stop at or near a place along the shore the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth after exploring Cape Cod Bay

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as in disembarking
to go ashore from a ship the passengers on the cruise landed at St. George in Bermuda

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as in perching
to come to rest after descending from the air our plane is landing in 15 minutes, so we need to put all of our things away

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Recent Examples of landing
Noun
To convert LinkedIn traffic, landing pages must be clear, not just pretty. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Last November, gangs opened fire on a Spirit Airlines flight landing in Port-au-Prince, striking a flight attendant who received minor injuries. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
Follow my LinkedIn profile checklist for landing coaching clients. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Washington — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a private jet that went off the end of the runway and through a fence after landing at Chicago Executive Airport on Wednesday. Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for landing
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Noun
  • The property includes an indoor shooting range, pool house, guest house and a 4,000 square foot dock.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • When the barrels reached their loading dock, instead of rich complexity, the whiskey tasted of grass and hay.
    Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rain is forecast to begin arriving along Baja California Sur on Wednesday and continue through Friday, bringing 4 to 8 inches of rain, with greater amounts possible in isolated locations.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • By 2010, Burmese refugees started arriving in earnest.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The clear stance that the club has spent every available penny of their PSR allowance left many baffled, but the club’s accounts over the coming years will reveal all.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • From sleight-of-hand tricks to daring stunts, the afternoon is designed to keep the laughs and gasps coming.
    Tiffani Jackson Skinner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The other was a sailor who had fallen between two ships while disembarking one and boarding another.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The resort is also conveniently located for embarking or disembarking a cruise or ferry connection, with the port of Piraeus about 30 to 45 minutes away, depending on traffic.
    Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • There have been many previous perching drone designs, but these typically have hooks or grasping claws to hold on to branches or powerlines, or use magnets or gecko-like feet to attach to vertical surfaces.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As of 2025, Gen Z travelers are likely to take longer trips than their millennial counterparts, despite being younger and statistically earning less.
    Acacia Gabriel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Torres played last season at Burleson Centennial, earning District 7-5A Division I Co-Offensive Player of the Year honors after passing for more than 2,000 yards.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • More than a month after his death, Ozzy Osbourne’s music has largely slipped away from the Billboard charts following the headline-grabbing news that one of rock’s founding fathers had passed away.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • SpaceX was also famously involved in funding and operating the headline-grabbing Polaris Dawn crewed commercial mission in September 2024.
    Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The port planned to use it to clean up and remediate polluted areas, build facilities for handling the turbine parts, dredge the waterway and build a larger wharf capable of handling pieces of steel longer than a football field.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The infrastructure humans build in the water ‒ houses, piers, wharves, jetties, and even oil rigs ‒ create new habitats for juvenile jellyfish, called polyps, to attach and grow, Bologna said.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025

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“Landing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landing. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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