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alighted

verb as in land

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Not surprisingly, by the time that the couple alighted at the Astrodome in 1974, they were headed for divorce proceedings.

From Salon

The Royal Samoan Police Band began playing as the couple alighted and met local officials.

From BBC

Finally, one perched on a nearby tree while the other alighted on the deck.

But the American composer has an instinct for recognizing when he has alighted on a story that will send his imagination into overdrive.

A poor fisherman in a Turkish village was retrieving his net from a lake when he found that a white stork had alighted on his boat.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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