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  • present participle of land.
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landing

[lan-ding] / ˈlæn dɪŋ /


NOUN
act of a person/thing that lands
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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

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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