flatland

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

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

On Monday, an incoming typhoon which turned into a tropical storm forced organisers to call quits and evacuate all participants from the Saemangeum area- a vast, treeless flatland.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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

Rather than deal with the wild animals, who seemed to be everywhere on the flatland, they decided to go in search of food up in the hills.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

Ukrainians argue that stopping the Russians if they reached the flatlands would be much harder.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

The British architectural critic Reyner Banham wrote about the region’s four ecologies: the coast, the foothills, the flatlands and the freeways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

Its history is short: it has only existed since 2005, raised out of the flatlands by the then military rulers of Myanmar, which was previously known as Burma.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025

Geological Survey calls the Buttes “a remarkable geographic and geologic feature” emerging from what are otherwise flatlands extending out for miles.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

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