flatland
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The partners leased their first of three parcels of barren flatland for around $25,000 a month, anchored by a dilapidated ranch house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
"I was raised in Delta dirt, sunshine and flatland that goes on for miles and miles," she sings, as people nod their heads and stomp their feet to the beat.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
“I think a lot of it is that we populate the scene between the flatland of L.A. and the Griffith Park hill.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
In other world championships decided Thursday, Yu Shoji of Japan won the men’s BMX freestyle flatland competition and Aude Cassagne of France took the women’s title.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
This man was different: it would have been easy for him to hunt in the flatland, where there were wide skies and light, but he chose instead to go into dark and thick forests.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
The British architectural critic Reyner Banham wrote about the region’s four ecologies: the coast, the foothills, the flatlands and the freeways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Given these troops have been trained to fight in the mountainous Korean Peninsula, the defectors question how well they will adapt to fighting on the flatlands and in the trenches of Kursk.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
Homer French resides in a mountain wilderness, dry and sparsely populated, with panoramic views that include hazy intimations of gridded settlement in the flatlands below.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
The adaptation of Tobias Wolff’s acclaimed memoir about his youth in the mountains of upper Skagit County developed a cult following among his teenage friends and family in the flatlands of Michigan.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
Against the westering sun, the long shadows of the horsemen reached across the hill slope toward the flatlands where the small troop struggled onward.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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