- present participle of land.
landing
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The sweetness of the vegetables became more nuanced instead of landing like a sledgehammer.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The mission landing is still regarded, however, as an historic success for the European Space Agency which has subsequently influenced future exploration.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
He is currently undergoing questioning after having been interviewed earlier in the week in Saudi Arabia, where the flight he was co-piloting made an emergency landing Wednesday after the incident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Brian Oswald, a 69-year-old retired forestry professor from Nacogdoches, Texas, came straight to Oktoberfest after landing on an overnight flight from the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
From the second landing I can see my aunt pause, trying to decide whether to press the issue.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Seuring said in an interview Tuesday that 21 Air’s training for redoing landings was good.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The system will have dual landings in India – at Machilipatnam, providing a shorter subsea route to Hyderabad, and at a new landing location in South Chennai, adding diversity to existing routes.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Phase I of NASA's Moon Base architecture plan, which is underway now through 2029, calls for more than twenty robotic landings.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Robert Capa’s photograph of GIs on the USS Samuel Chase just before the D-Day landings, soldiers play craps with French banknotes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
I take a taxi back to the studio, climb the four flights of stairs, dimly lit as they are at night, resting on the landings.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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