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Recent Examples of crash-land
Another biggie movie, the 1980s Cold War action movie follows a U.S. pilot who crash-lands in the USSR, only to be nurtured back by a local woodsman, who is a fan of the U.S. From the trailer, the Skydance Media pic looks to be akin to Spies Like Us with a dose of Top Gun.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
An alien known only as Experiment 626 (Chris Sanders) flees his home planet and crash-lands in Hawaii, where he is adopted by a grieving young girl named Lilo (Daveigh Chase), who takes him for a dog and dubs him Stitch.
—David Faris, TheWeek, 27 Jan. 2026
Published by Amazon Original Stories for its Kindle platform last year, the story told of a group of mercenaries that crash-land on a remote snow summit.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Okarun and Jiji — ejected from the Buddha robot — crash-land in a nearby rice field.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
An alien known only as Experiment 626 (Chris Sanders) flees his home planet and crash-lands in Hawaii, where he is adopted by a grieving young girl named Lilo (Daveigh Chase), who takes him for a dog and dubs him Stitch.
—David Faris, TheWeek, 27 Jan. 2026
Published by Amazon Original Stories for its Kindle platform last year, the story told of a group of mercenaries that crash-land on a remote snow summit.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Okarun and Jiji — ejected from the Buddha robot — crash-land in a nearby rice field.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 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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In practice, spreading the odds meant that even teams who were just bad in general had a chance at landing the top pick.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Fans hope Sacramento lands expansion club The optimism isn’t just for another season of promise but for something greater.—
Joe Davidson
April 3,
Sacbee.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Rebecca ends with the housekeeper (also obsessed with the dead Rebecca) setting the house alight.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
9 Mar. 2026
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Rich Rolen The pilot tried to make it to a local airport but instead touched down on I-78 east in Weisenberg Township, Lehigh County, according to police.—
Joe Brandt,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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The Griffin lander will demonstrate its ability to land with no official NASA payload, but will touch down on Mons Mouton near the western rim of Nobile crater close to the lunar south pole.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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And eventually, the chickens are going to come to roost with that.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
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There’s a constant feeling of chickens coming home to roost, regardless of what Amir and Jahan may or may not be up to.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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The restaurant is lit with neon and filled with eye-catching vintage cultural artifacts, many of which are highlighted on a light-box art wall to grab your attention.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
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This technique has brought to light the extraordinary genetic diversity that exists within all of us.—
Jerome Groopman,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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By 2024, his team had mapped nearly all of an enormous reef off the Carolina coast, perched a thousand metres down.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Our light posts are probably 30 feet high, so they are perched way above any other structure in the area.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Crash-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crash-land. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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