crash-land
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There’s a more than 1% chance the asteroid will make its way toward Earth and crash-land on the planet in December 2032.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
Another study showed that a group of frogs called pumpkin toadlets had become so small that the fluid-filled canals in their ears that confer balance no longer functioned properly, causing them to crash-land when jumping.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Both characters are humanoids from faraway planets who crash-land on Earth.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
Those particular words crash-land like cinder blocks tossed from a skyscraper.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022
He hatched a scheme to fly a small airplane to Tibet, crash-land it on the flanks of Everest, and proceed to the summit from there.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
When Arco crash-lands into it, however, having borrowed a cape and a diamond, Iris’s focus turns to helping him find his way home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Morrow was the chief security officer on the Maginot, the Weyland-Yutani deep space research vessel that crash-lands in Prodigy territory and carries several lethal extraterrestrial species.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025
The winds get stronger and the vampire drone crash-lands.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
Charlton Heston stars as the captain of a four-person space crew that crash-lands on a planet that feels unfamiliar, where talking apes rule and humans, such as they are, have been enslaved.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
A couple crash-lands on a Caribbean island and is rescued from paranoid politicians by a mystical fisherman-philosopher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
The organic molecules are not definitive evidence of past life, the NASA-led team emphasised, because they could also have formed on the red planet or crash-landed on meteorites.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Then he purposely crash-landed into Ketron Island on Puget Sound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
A 70-year-old man has died after a light aeroplane crash-landed at an airfield near Sherburn in Elmet.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025
“Superman” crash-landed on a planet divided, closing out an era defined by crime, economic strife and the Vietnam War.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025
Like I’d crash-landed on another planet and I was too far away from home to ever get back.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
There were 76 passengers and four crew on the flight, which had travelled from the US city of Minneapolis before making its crash-landing in Canada.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
The win comes just four days after Russia’s crash-landing.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
"Hocus Pocus 2" is crash-landing on Disney+ on September 30 and it already has an advantage over the original which came out in theaters during the — blech — summer of 1993.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2022
Following a cold open teasing Stitch’s crash-landing on Kauai, a colorful title sequence set to “He Mele No Lilo” introduced moviegoers to Lilo and her island home for the first time with an elegant hula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
Should have been retested after the crash-landing, at least.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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