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 coming campaign will focus not only on events now in play and those we can anticipate but also those that crash-land out of the blue in the coming months.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2021
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
The winds get stronger and the vampire drone crash-lands.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
When Mills the space pilot crash-lands on a muddy, reptile-infested Earth after his vessel is hit by an asteroid, you might have an inkling of the larger disaster in store.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 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
A couple’s prayers are seemingly answered when an object crash-lands to Earth carrying a life-form that looks like a baby boy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 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
The US Coast Guard said the helicopter crash-landed about 100 yards off Kalalau beach.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 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
Luke would give anything to go back to pretending to fly missions, when they crash-landed behind enemy lines.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
Glimpsed in “Alien: Earth’s” first episode, the Maginot had to be fully fitted out for Episode 5’s flashback to the onboard horror that preceded the crash-landing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
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
Alan Tudyk plays Harry, masquerading as a small-town doctor - and a human - after crash-landing on Earth.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 25, 2021
The plane they were escorting, a transport aircraft with good navigation equipment, landed safely; but the three Yaks ended up crash-landing in the snow.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
