dry land
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More than 450 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared and before animals or plants had spread widely across dry land, crinoids were already thriving in some of Earth's earliest coral reefs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Virginia Eubanks, an investigative journalist and political-science professor living in Troy, N.Y., faced a similar situation in 2015—though it involved a crisis on dry land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
He was sitting in front of an aerial photograph of dry land projected onto a big screen at the OS headquarters in the port city of Southampton, southern England.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The position was easy enough — I’d done it countless times on dry land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
It pained Mariam—it pained her considerably—to picture Rasheed panic-stricken and helpless, pacing the banks of the lake and pleading with it to spit his son back onto dry land.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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