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Recent Examples of landing strip
Ken said that when the plane finally stopped on that tiny landing strip, its nose was 2 feet from the water.
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Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
Photos posted to the department's Facebook page show the small aircraft sitting among the trees alongside the landing strip.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025
Just after the war, as part of Operation Nanook, the Americans expanded the existing installation with a gravel landing strip as part of an upgrade to a new and larger weather station.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025
Only two people survived after the 15-year-old 737-800 Boeing plane run by Jeju Air skidded across the landing strip without landing gear and crashed into a concrete barrier containing antennas, bursting into flames.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
Photos posted to the department's Facebook page show the small aircraft sitting among the trees alongside the landing strip.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025
Just after the war, as part of Operation Nanook, the Americans expanded the existing installation with a gravel landing strip as part of an upgrade to a new and larger weather station.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025
Only two people survived after the 15-year-old 737-800 Boeing plane run by Jeju Air skidded across the landing strip without landing gear and crashed into a concrete barrier containing antennas, bursting into flames.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for landing strip
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The Pentagon on Thursday released an extraordinary number of details about the military's top-secret bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities and its defense of an air base in Qatar.—
Anne Flaherty,
ABC News,
26 June 2025
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Tuesday morning's developments come after Iran targeted the U.S. military's largest Middle East air base with a missile attack Monday in an apparent response to U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities days earlier.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landing%20strip. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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