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land up

verb

  1. adverb, usually intr to arrive or cause to arrive at a final point

    after a summer in Europe, he suddenly landed up at home

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"It's not simple to sell land up here, it's either all or nothing."

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“If you want to work on a cannabis farm, there are opportunities, but I don’t want to get involved in more illegal activities now. I don’t want to land up in prison.”

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"We can land up there, that's not the problem, we do that all the time. But we need the flying condition," said Mr Truffer.

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A smattering of models disagreed on where a weather system would land up until Thursday morning, when the European weather model, which has been “fairly consistent,” Reedy said, looked to prevail.

In 1887, for example, the Dawes Act broke tribal lands up and gave them to Native families with tribal claims willing to undergo cultural assimilation.

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