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
They’re made out of some kind of astronaut plastic that could crash-land on Venus and not break.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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
Marc Turtletaub’s “Jules” falls squarely in the latter category — the titular alien who crash-lands in small-town Pennsylvania is a vegetarian, and eats apple slices given to him by his genial human host.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
Planet of the Apes Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in the classic 1968 sci-fi fable about an astronaut who crash-lands on a strange world where apes rule and humans are hunted.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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
It was as though she’d crash-landed on a distant planet, a smoking, ash-covered land.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
"Those 'exorbitant fees' are the crash-landing of a system that hasn't been planned or funded properly," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
The win comes just four days after Russia’s crash-landing.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
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
Alan Tudyk plays Harry, masquerading as a small-town doctor - and a human - after crash-landing on Earth.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 25, 2021
“But you’ve been shot down on almost every one. You’re either ditching or crash-landing every time you go up.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
