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Recent Examples of landing strip
The landing strip at Princess Juliana International Airport is separated from the beach by a single road, meaning that at peak season up to 70 flights a day come whizzing over the sand, almost close enough to touch.
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Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
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
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
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
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Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
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
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
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
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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
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At the northwestern Tabriz air base linked to Iran’s medium-range ballistic missiles, taxiways and runways have been restored.—
Farida Elsebai,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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One of the world’s sturdiest planes, a C-130, was on standby at Rawalpindi air base to ferry the body to the man’s village.—
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20 Feb. 2026
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