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
The heavy-lift Il-76 cargo plane went down in the Ryazan region after having an engine problem that forced the crew of 10 to crash-land.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
Everyone agreed that only Masha’s plane had been on fire—surely the others had managed to crash-land safely somewhere?
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
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
At the beginning of “Encounter,” the sophomore feature from the British director Michael Pearce, something bright and blazing crash-lands in the night and a swarm of microorganisms appears to colonize an earthly host.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
Sharkwrecked: Crash Landing The shark survival team purposely crash-lands off the remote Pacific island of Palau, where it must face against sharks as it struggles to reach shore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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
“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
Upon arriving at his warehouse in the quaint Polish village of Komorniki, Adam Burucki discovered that a massive chunk of charred rocket debris had crash-landed on his property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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
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
"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
Furious winds have stoked the flames and forced the crash-landing of a firefighting helicopter.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 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
