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Recent Examples of landing strip
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.
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Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Demonstrators lined both sides of the narrow two-way road leading to the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, a remote landing strip just north of Tamiami Trail.
—Pedro Portal, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
What To Know Alligator Alcatraz is set to be located at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, an idle landing strip west of Miami.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
About two weeks ago, on May 20, funnel clouds reported near the Quad Cities airport forced travelers to take cover in the basement and federal air controllers to leave the glass tower that overlooks the landing strips.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 June 2025
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Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Demonstrators lined both sides of the narrow two-way road leading to the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, a remote landing strip just north of Tamiami Trail.
—Pedro Portal, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
What To Know Alligator Alcatraz is set to be located at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, an idle landing strip west of Miami.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
About two weeks ago, on May 20, funnel clouds reported near the Quad Cities airport forced travelers to take cover in the basement and federal air controllers to leave the glass tower that overlooks the landing strips.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for landing strip
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This dimension of the work was heightened by its site, a former helicopter landing field on an old NATO base, given over to the Autostrada Biennale in 2014 as part of a process of demilitarization in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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For nearly 30 years, there have been plans to build a veterans' clinic and final resting place on the property of the old Alameda air base.—
John Ramos,
CBS News,
16 Dec. 2025
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The two were among other servicemembers who made three trips between the air base and airfield over three days.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
27 Nov. 2025
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