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has crash-landed

  • present perfect
    of crash-land (3rd person singular).
    crash-land
    verb (used with object)
    to land (an aircraft), under circumstances in which a normal landing is impossible, in such a way that damage to the aircraft is unavoidable.

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The setup hasn’t changed: You are an astronaut who has crash-landed on an alien planet, and you need help from the plant-like title critters to survive.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

Forty years after statistician Bill James began to popularize advanced analytics in sports, and 16 years after the baseball book “Moneyball” entered the American consciousness, the analytical revolution has crash-landed in the Washington-Baltimore sports landscape.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2019

Her only remaining hope is a job babysitting the kids of a board member at the school, but an alien ship full of hungry critters has crash-landed nearby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019

There is a tenderness about the relationship between the aviator who has crash-landed in the desert and this strange human being that is so telling and touching.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2018

However, a large cuckoo has crash-landed into the Westminster nest and it is noisily disrupting any prospect of politics as usual.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2015