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splashdown

noun

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as in landing

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Recent Examples of splashdown The festival also featured food trucks, vendors and a watch party to view the splashdown. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026 During the most recent flight, the vehicle deployed 20 Starlink satellites before returning to Earth, although a fire did briefly break out following splashdown. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026 Previous flights ended with the spacecraft engulfed in flames and exploding at splashdown — or rupturing in midair. — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 25 July 2026 Previous flights ended with the spacecraft engulfed in flames and exploding at splashdown -- or rupturing in midair. — Arkansas Online, 24 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for splashdown
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landing
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  • The moon landing missions continued, but only through Apollo 17, with the last footprints on the moon left there in December 1972.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Where that gesture followed the Normandy landings and the Marshall Plan, this one arrives after ten years of Franco-British froideur.
    — John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of landing

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“Splashdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splashdown. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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