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Delta Air Lines is offering $30,000 to each passenger who was on the Toronto flight that crash-landed and flipped upside-down.
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Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Canada: The authorities are investigating what caused a plane to crash-land and flip over on the runway in Toronto yesterday.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Simu Liu was flying to Toronto on the day a Delta plane crash-landed at the city’s Pearson International Airport on Monday, Feb.17.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 18 Feb. 2025
Some ibises crash-landed, while a couple of others flew off and went missing for hours.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Canada: The authorities are investigating what caused a plane to crash-land and flip over on the runway in Toronto yesterday.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Simu Liu was flying to Toronto on the day a Delta plane crash-landed at the city’s Pearson International Airport on Monday, Feb.17.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 18 Feb. 2025
Some ibises crash-landed, while a couple of others flew off and went missing for hours.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crash-land
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Jeju Air's Boeing 737-800 burst into flames after it belly-landed at Muan International Airport in South Korea, killing all but two people on board.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
11 Jan. 2025
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In the worst air disaster in South Korean history, 179 people were killed when a Boeing 737-800 belly-landed and skidded off the runway at Muan International Airport.—
David Hodari,
NBC News,
3 Jan. 2025
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Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2025
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Intuitive Machines, a space business based in Houston, is attempting its second-ever landing on the surface of the moon.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
6 Mar. 2025
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Early speculation has alighted on unscripted chief, and Moore confidante, Kate Phillips taking on the caretaker role while recruitment is live.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
27 Feb. 2025
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Which of course will be followed by dancing and fireworks alighting the sky above.—
Jennifer Leigh Parker,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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The booster returned to Earth about eight minutes after launch like the legions of its predecessors, touching down on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions stationed offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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People living near Pelican Lake Reserve and environmental activists began to notice that as trash and construction rubble piled up and sewage gurgled into the water, fewer and fewer birds were touching down there each winter.—
Raad al-Remi,
The Christian Science Monitor,
26 Feb. 2025
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But as the spending boom waned, some retailers saw problems with their businesses come home to roost.—
Cory Smith,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Feb. 2025
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Flames encroached on the trees where butterflies roosted and, while the tree grove remains standing but singed, the status of butterflies is unclear.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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Make a massive ‘SOS’ or light a fire to create smoke.—
Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
3 Mar. 2025
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The way the room is lit, the pacing of the evening, the way a dish is introduced, the way our team gets to know our guests - these small things create the overall experience.—
Noel Burgess,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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The tabby is not only engrossed but also sitting on a small plastic chair like a human, with a toy fish perched on his chest.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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Called the Augusta Apartment, the 1,500-square-foot space is perched atop the legendary restaurant and boasts expansive views over the Seine and the famous cathedral.—
Rhonda Richford,
WWD,
20 Feb. 2025
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