flatland
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The partners leased their first of three parcels of barren flatland for around $25,000 a month, anchored by a dilapidated ranch house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
"I was raised in Delta dirt, sunshine and flatland that goes on for miles and miles," she sings, as people nod their heads and stomp their feet to the beat.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
In other world championships decided Thursday, Yu Shoji of Japan won the men’s BMX freestyle flatland competition and Aude Cassagne of France took the women’s title.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
But the oil giant ConocoPhillips is already in motion, massing equipment and flying in workers and provisions to this vast frozen flatland 250 miles above the Arctic Circle.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
It was a lovely sensation, one the agent had always appreciated, catapulting from the twisty dark gorge onto that flatland, with a straight highway aiming exactly north.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Given these troops have been trained to fight in the mountainous Korean Peninsula, the defectors question how well they will adapt to fighting on the flatlands and in the trenches of Kursk.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
The Cool Patch maze, which rises from the flatlands near Interstate 80 just before the Sacramento Valley rolls up into the Vaca Mountains, got ever larger and more creative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
Homer French resides in a mountain wilderness, dry and sparsely populated, with panoramic views that include hazy intimations of gridded settlement in the flatlands below.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
The adaptation of Tobias Wolff’s acclaimed memoir about his youth in the mountains of upper Skagit County developed a cult following among his teenage friends and family in the flatlands of Michigan.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
She recalled Crag the turtle telling stories of how their island had once been a mountain, until the ocean flooded the nearby flatlands.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
