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Recent Examples of landing field
The teens were evaluated by medical personnel at a landing field before they were released, rescuers said.
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Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2025
But thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s time as governor, the once awful Third World landing field in Queens now matches Fiorello the man in superlatives.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025
Across the street from the resort was the Chicagoland Airport, once a satellite landing field during World War II for Glenview Naval Air Station.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Van Zandt purchased 278 acres of cotton fields east of 24th Street and south of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and transformed them into a landing field.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024
And no ones sees that landing field more clearly than Michael O’Leary, Boeing’s disappointed customer, but still true believer.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
The three were assigned to the 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, based at Fort Moore, Ga., a unit that builds roads, landing fields and other facilities for American troops overseas.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
During an emergency action plan rehearsal at an Alabama high school, medical providers realized that a foot bridge to the life-flight helicopter’s emergency landing field wasn’t wide enough to support a gurney.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2025
But thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s time as governor, the once awful Third World landing field in Queens now matches Fiorello the man in superlatives.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025
Across the street from the resort was the Chicagoland Airport, once a satellite landing field during World War II for Glenview Naval Air Station.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Van Zandt purchased 278 acres of cotton fields east of 24th Street and south of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and transformed them into a landing field.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024
And no ones sees that landing field more clearly than Michael O’Leary, Boeing’s disappointed customer, but still true believer.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
The three were assigned to the 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, based at Fort Moore, Ga., a unit that builds roads, landing fields and other facilities for American troops overseas.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
During an emergency action plan rehearsal at an Alabama high school, medical providers realized that a foot bridge to the life-flight helicopter’s emergency landing field wasn’t wide enough to support a gurney.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for landing field
Noun
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He was then put in the back of a pickup truck and taken to a landing strip, where he was forced onto a private jet headed for the United States.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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In the upstairs bar and prep kitchen area, about 20 flies used the walls and bar counter as landing strips.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Iran retaliated with missile attacks on the American air base at Al-Udeid in Qatar, calling it a direct response to U.S. aggression.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
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In 1940, the Army established an air base in Orlando, taking over the city’s first municipal airport and sending pilots over the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico seeking German U-Boats.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025
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“Landing field.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landing%20field. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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