TOUCHED DOWN Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

touched down

verb

past tense of touch down

as in perched

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 touched down England’s team plane touched down in Kansas City early Monday morning following a tough World Cup match, and weary players headed to their hotel in Prairie Village. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026 People previously reported that Donna touched down in New York City on July 2 just hours before the couple’s intimate 100-person rehearsal at the Infosys Theater, which is on the grounds of Madison Square Garden. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 5 July 2026 Spencer then touched down on Disney’s drama series Last Days of the Space Age in 2024, his most recent onscreen credit to date. — Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 July 2026 Friends of the couple and other Hollywood A-listers, including Gigi Hadid, Bradley Cooper, Benson Boone, Sombr, Jason Sudeikis, Hugh Grant, and more, touched down in the area. — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 The original Mothership touched down at the Municipal Auditorium in October 1976 as part of the P-Funk Earth Tour. — Kyle Eustice, VIBE.com, 2 July 2026 The National Weather Service confirms that an EF-0 tornado touched down in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on Tuesday, adding to a growing list of tornadoes in the first six months of 2026. — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 1 July 2026 The veteran filmmaker touched down on the island last week to attend the Mediterrane Film Festival, which screened his latest film, the shark thriller Deep Water, starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 28 June 2026 As well as Fox News appearances and more to pitch his latest book, the Hillbilly Elegy author also touched down at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda, CA on Thursday. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 26 June 2026

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Le Tigrr Ermitage is the insider's pick—a hybrid Asian restaurant, cocktail bar, lounge, and club perched on the hill above Place des Lices, in the grounds of the historic Hôtel Ermitage.

— Karli Poliziani, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2026
McGinley photographed models cavorting naked (always naked) through sand dunes in the Mojave Desert and pine forests in Vermont, in a frigid ice cave in upstate New York and perched above a rushing waterfall in Tennessee.

— Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026