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Recent Examples of landing field
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.
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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
But just as a scene begins to flatten, an aircraft crashes into a tree or flips cleanly onto its back on a landing field, instantly reviving the narrative.
—Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
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
But just as a scene begins to flatten, an aircraft crashes into a tree or flips cleanly onto its back on a landing field, instantly reviving the narrative.
—Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for landing field
Noun
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The flight crashed almost immediately after takeoff, hitting the ground about a runway distance away from the landing strip.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
12 June 2025
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At night the light display glows like an airplane landing strip.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 June 2025
Noun
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Following Israel’s strikes on Iran on June 13, three drones were shot down near Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq, The Associated Press reported.—
Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
20 June 2025
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Open-source analysis has suggested one A-50 spy plane was damaged or destroyed at Ivanovo air base, as well as four Tu-95 aircraft and three Tu-22M3 bombers at the Belaya air base, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) think tank said on Monday.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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“Landing field.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landing%20field. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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