as in to perch
to come to rest after descending from the air
the plane will touch down in about 30 minutes
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Recent Examples of touch down
Mitch West, meanwhile, was licking his wounds on Monday night, when snow still hadn’t touched down in his region of South Carolina.
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Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
Video shows the plane slowly descending toward the runway, then touching down with a jolt, its wings bouncing as yellow fire and white smoke bursts from beneath it.
—CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Marcos had barely touched down in Hawaii when Corazon Aquino appointed a young lawyer named Rodrigo Roa Duterte as vice mayor of the country’s third-largest city.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
The Dallas Cowboys’ front office and scouting department touched down in Mobile, Alabama, on Monday night for the annual Senior Bowl scouting event to get a hands-on look at some of the players who will be available in the upcoming draft.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2026
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Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
Video shows the plane slowly descending toward the runway, then touching down with a jolt, its wings bouncing as yellow fire and white smoke bursts from beneath it.
—CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Marcos had barely touched down in Hawaii when Corazon Aquino appointed a young lawyer named Rodrigo Roa Duterte as vice mayor of the country’s third-largest city.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
The Dallas Cowboys’ front office and scouting department touched down in Mobile, Alabama, on Monday night for the annual Senior Bowl scouting event to get a hands-on look at some of the players who will be available in the upcoming draft.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for touch down
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This price for the complex of 149 apartments is perched on the high side of per-unit values of South Bay residential hubs that have landed new owners lately.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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The shelving unit that contains some of his collection of roughly 20,000 books stretches to the ceiling of the two-story living room; McDaniel would later perch on its narrow catwalk to deliver his lecture.—
Lila Shapiro,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2026
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The 20-year-old artist tackled the track in-studio alongside his band, just one week after landing inside the top 10 of Australia’s annual Hottest 100 countdown himself.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
31 Jan. 2026
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And now Daboll is in Tennessee, coaching the quarterback the Giants tried and failed to land atop the draft.—
Zack Rosenblatt,
New York Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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The streets are begrimed by factory smoke, fecund with horse dung and lit by lanterns.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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No one even lives here, said Chuky, trying to light a cigarette but foiled by a laugh.—
Jonathan Miles,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Touch down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touch%20down. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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