flatland
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flatlands
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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
And much of the flatland area that McNeill views as most appropriate for development is restricted by open space easements purchased by the county in the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
Louis said Parker's best discipline is flatland BMX - doing tricks on the ground, without the use of ramps, however, for Parker, he enjoys the more extreme side.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2024
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
It was a lovely sensation, one the agent had always appreciated, catapulting from the twisty dark gorge onto that flatland, with a straight highway aiming exactly north.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
The bulk of homes were in the flatlands, built on a grid with multiple escape routes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 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
Geological Survey calls the Buttes “a remarkable geographic and geologic feature” emerging from what are otherwise flatlands extending out for miles.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
Gilchrist was born in 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and spent part of her childhood on a remote plantation in the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Finally we reached some conclusions: To find a cave, we would have to go where there were mountains—there aren’t many caves in flatlands.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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