as in chopper
a vehicle for traveling through the air that obtains its lift from rotors which spin horizontally
took a helicopter tour to get a better sense of the grandeur of the Grand Canyon
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Recent Examples of helicopter
NPR, 2 Nov. 2025
These long-range, all-weather helicopters are capable of extended flight times and can fly in gale-force winds.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
Gerhardt said the agency plans to helicopter pieces of the wreckage to a secure facility in Delaware in the coming days.
—Pete Muntean, CNN, 6 June 2023
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Noun
Two men survived the accident and were taken by helicopter to a hospital in the near city of Bolzano.
—NPR, 2 Nov. 2025
These long-range, all-weather helicopters are capable of extended flight times and can fly in gale-force winds.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
If all goes well, recovery teams will helicopter it to a portable clean room to remove its heat shield and back shell and then fly it to a specially prepared facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
Gerhardt said the agency plans to helicopter pieces of the wreckage to a secure facility in Delaware in the coming days.
—Pete Muntean, CNN, 6 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for helicopter
Noun
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At the end of the game, Alma climbs onto the evac chopper before everything cuts to black.—
Will Borger,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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But the agency said that high winds prevented the chopper from approaching the young father's location on the mountain until Monday.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The agents pretended not to know that the pilots spent their time jetting around Maduro and other top officials.—
Joshua Goodman,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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An interstellar comet is dramatically jetting off ice and dust into space, a new image shows.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Its sustained winds rocketing faster by 65 mph in just 15 hours, taking the storm to 140 mph.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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Sullivan’s star in the running world was already glowing, but her gutsy fourth-place finish in Tokyo rocketed it even higher.—
Julie Mazziotta,
PEOPLE,
1 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The project has also catapulted Hudson back into the Oscar race.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
29 Oct. 2025
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Under Frankfort’s leadership for 29 years as CEO, growth catapulted from $6 million to $5 billion.—
Vicki Salemi,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki mission orbiting Venus was declared dead last week after engineers spent more than a year trying to get in touch with the silent spacecraft.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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That's because of how the moon orbits our planet.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Helicopter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helicopter. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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