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Recent Examples of landing stripIf time flies, then 2025 moved at supersonic speed, and December is its landing strip.—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 See All Example Sentences for landing strip
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.
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Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
The teens were evaluated by medical personnel at a landing field before they were released, rescuers said.
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.
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Aamer Madhani,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2026
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.