landing strip

noun

Definition of landing stripnext
as in landing field

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Recent Examples of landing strip To preserve stealth and the element of surprise, the operators might create a staging ground several miles from their objective, which might include building a makeshift landing strip. — Sheena Samu, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026 Let the mind be, along with countless other things, a landing strip for sacred visitations. — Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026 The ranch even has its own landing strip. — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2025 If time flies, then 2025 moved at supersonic speed, and December is its landing strip. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 1 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for landing strip
Recent Examples of Synonyms for landing strip
  1. landing field
  2. air base
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  • The teens were evaluated by medical personnel at a landing field before they were released, rescuers said.
    — 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
Definition of landing field
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  • The deaths span drone strikes in Kuwait, a missile attack on a Saudi air base, a refueling crash over Iraq, a helicopter downed in the Arabian Sea and missile defenses in Jordan.
    — Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
  • Al Udeid, the US air base outside Doha built from 1996, gave Washington a forward hub and gave Qatar protection no amount of gas money could buy on its own.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
Definition of air base

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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landing%20strip. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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