flatland
noun
flat·land
ˈflat-ˌland 
1
: a region in which the land is predominantly flat
—usually used in plural
2
: land that lacks significant variation in elevation
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Not toward Settembrini’s international republic of letters, and not back toward his simple bourgeois life down in the flatlands.
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George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
The Cool Patch maze, which rises from the flatlands near Interstate 80 just before the Sacramento Valley rolls up into the Vaca Mountains, got ever larger and more creative.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
His songs come from the dirt of the flatland of Arkansas.
—Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
Although she was born in Oakland, California, most of Harris’s early childhood was spent in a nondescript duplex apartment located above a day care facility in an area of West Berkeley known as the flatlands (her parents met as graduate students at UC Berkeley).
—Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2024
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George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
The Cool Patch maze, which rises from the flatlands near Interstate 80 just before the Sacramento Valley rolls up into the Vaca Mountains, got ever larger and more creative.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
His songs come from the dirt of the flatland of Arkansas.
—Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
Although she was born in Oakland, California, most of Harris’s early childhood was spent in a nondescript duplex apartment located above a day care facility in an area of West Berkeley known as the flatlands (her parents met as graduate students at UC Berkeley).
—Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2024
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“Flatland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flatland. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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