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
With just enough fuel left to get them to the ground, Valentina and Polina managed to crash-land the Rodina in one piece.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
The winds get stronger and the vampire drone crash-lands.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
One B-17 survives Luftwaffe attacks and crash-lands in Northern Africa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
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
Forty-five years later another alien from Newton's home planet crash-lands on Earth, this time in New Mexico.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2022
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
When Jimmy Stewart crash-landed in an alternative timeline, he was aghast at the economic disparity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
The two other prominent theories are that Earhart crash-landed on or near the then-Japanese Marshall Islands, or that she made it to Nikumaroro island near Kiribati and died a castaway there.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
It was going to take a 253,665-mile flight before it crash-landed onto the moon.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Data released by the flight-tracking website Flight Radar shows the plane zig-zagging up and down as it approached Aktau, before turning and crash-landing just kilometres from the airport.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
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
