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Recent Examples of landing strip
If time flies, then 2025 moved at supersonic speed, and December is its landing strip.
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Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 1 Dec. 2025
The landing strip at Princess Juliana International Airport is separated from the beach by a single road, meaning that at peak season up to 70 flights a day come whizzing over the sand, almost close enough to touch.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
He was then put in the back of a pickup truck and taken to a landing strip, where he was forced onto a private jet headed for the United States.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
What To Know Alligator Alcatraz is set to be located at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, an idle landing strip west of Miami.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
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Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 1 Dec. 2025
The landing strip at Princess Juliana International Airport is separated from the beach by a single road, meaning that at peak season up to 70 flights a day come whizzing over the sand, almost close enough to touch.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
He was then put in the back of a pickup truck and taken to a landing strip, where he was forced onto a private jet headed for the United States.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
What To Know Alligator Alcatraz is set to be located at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, an idle landing strip west of Miami.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for landing strip
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This dimension of the work was heightened by its site, a former helicopter landing field on an old NATO base, given over to the Autostrada Biennale in 2014 as part of a process of demilitarization in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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The teens were evaluated by medical personnel at a landing field before they were released, rescuers said.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2025
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The number of American service members wounded in the Iran war has grown beyond 300, with more than two dozen troops injured this week in attacks on a Saudi air base.—
Aamer Madhani,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2026
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The number of American service members wounded in the Iran war has grown beyond 300, with more than two dozen troops injured this week from attacks on a Saudi air base.—
Aamer Madhani,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landing%20strip. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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