flatlander
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But thanks to the cables, any fit flatlander with a firm grip and steely nerves has a decent chance of making it up the backside of Half Dome — if the weather cooperates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
Despite this clear warning, this summer’s population explosion has tried his last nerve, as he explained to one flatlander after another how things are done in Vermont.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2020
It occurred to me that a headlong slide into the netting would be less than ideal for a fifty-year-old flatlander with a long list of wonky ligaments and disks, and a recent spate of concussions.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Gilmore then answered in his quavering otherworldly tenor, “I’m an old flatlander from the great high plains, I like wanderlust and wonder, West Texas wind blows through my veins.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2018
Well, we are in the same position in space as our puzzled flatlander, only we are flummoxed by a higher dimension.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
“Ah, Fall. Foliage, flatlanders, and frustration,” his website reads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
Miners hauled in hydraulic equipment to dig and dredge and strip the mountains, polluting the runoff so badly that in 1874, the flatlanders who depended on that water went to court to stop the despoiling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
“We were flatlanders from Michigan. I had never seen a lake that was so blissfully blue and have always remembered learning about glacier silt that absorbs and scatters sunlight across that spectrum.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
As he loves to point out, his current constituents have a fair amount in common with the corn-producing flatlanders he’s currently wooing.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2019
The flatlanders who invaded the Cheat Mountain country had been suckled in another creed, and to them western Virginia—there was, as yet, no West Virginia—was an enchanted land.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Bierce, Ambrose
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