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- noun A
terrain that varies little inelevation
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Examples
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(New Jersey, with its bare trees and wintry flatlands, is a presiding emotional presence in the picture.)
Kurt Loder Reviews ‘The Wrestler’: ‘A Fearless And Heartbreaking Performance’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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I live with three teen-age daughters in what is called the flatlands of East Oakland: the heart of drug country.
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Down the hill to the flatlands was a steep pathway, where talk paused naturally.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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It is those desolate East Prussian flatlands still within him, the comfortlessness of his childhood, so different from her own.
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A warm-haired girl she was — not a mountain girl, but from down in the flatlands — an 'as time went by she was fair desperate, an' the way she went after him was shameless.
Chapter II 2010
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From Missoula, the modules can be hauled across flatlands to the U.S.
Idaho Shortcut Stalls Global Trek Joel Millman 2010
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Joe Hutto's life changed when a local farmer in the Florida flatlands where he lives left a stainless steel dog bowl full of wild turkey eggs on the porch of his cabin.
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- Where the rolling green hills of Mississippi give way to the fertile flatlands of the Delta, Bernie Jordan bounced down a dirt road in his white pickup truck, surveying thousands of acres of farmland that, until recently, looked to be a bumper crop.
Mississippi Delta Flooding: Dreams Of Bountiful Harvest Wash Away The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The team has yet to finish on the podium in the flatlands, but Jones and Jenkins could provide the team a boost Thursday.
UnitedHealthcare’s Chris Jones goes from domestique to GC threat at Langkawi 2011
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Domaine Yves Cuilleron Winemaker Yves Cuilleron Very few of the village's young men survived the First World War, and after the second, when Étienne Guigal founded a winery here in the town of Ampuis, wines from these venerable, difficult hillsides were going for the same price as plonk from the flatlands downstream.
The Bacony Goodness of Côte-Rôtie Jay McInerney 2011
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