touched down

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 The crafts team behind the terrifying scenes in Paul Greengrass’s disaster movie The Lost Bus, inspired by the 2018 Camp Fire, one of the deadliest wildfires to ever hit California, touched down at Contenders London on Saturday. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025 Pettit’s latest space mission, a 220-day jaunt, concluded on his 70th birthday on April 20, when the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that carried him and his two crewmates touched down in the steppe of Kazakhstan. Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025 Play Now Photojournalist Philip Holsinger was on the ground when three planes touched down in El Salvador, carrying 261 men deported from the United States. Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Oct. 2025 Beerends said 22 tornadoes touched down during the outbreak. Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025 On the heels of a high-flying debut in James Gunn’s Superman, David Corenswet has touched down with a new role modeling menswear for Banana Republic. Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025 All four occurred during the May 15 storms, when 15 total tornadoes touched down in western and central Wisconsin. Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 28 Sep. 2025 Hours after the team plane touched down in Boston in the early morning hours following Thursday’s frustrating loss to the Toronto Blue Jays, Trevor Story walked into the Red Sox clubhouse to a sight not seen before in his four seasons with the club. Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025 Over a 24-hour period from Wednesday to Thursday morning, about 5,000 lightning strikes touched down across the state, according to the National Weather Service. Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for touched down
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  • On a late summer morning in the Pacific Palisades, dozens of hummingbirds rise from the ashes of Spencer Pratt‘s scorched hillside property, where his 2,200-square-foot, three-bedroom home once perched.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Dramatically perched on a cliffside, this gravity-defying marvel has weathered the rise and fall of empires.
    Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • Andy Richter and Emma Slater landed a 28 out of 40 for their Rumba, dedicated to his daughter.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Keeping track of what both Pokémon are doing, each of their health bars, the animations for each attack and the battle log (which shows whether or not attacks have landed) takes a long time to get used to.
    Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Touched down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touched%20down. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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