Thesaurus results for CHOPPER

chopper

noun

ˈchä-pər

as in helicopter

a vehicle for traveling through the air that obtains its lift from rotors which spin horizontally army choppers evacuated refugees from the war zone

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Recent Examples of chopper Mullins, who stole second and took third on Feduccia’s out, sprinted home on Taylor Walls’ weak chopper to first. —

ABC News, 15 May 2026 Cannes Film Festival president Iris Knobloch and Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne will be honored at an intimate lunch, which the lucky few who made the guest list will access by way of private chopper. —

Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 13 May 2026 Scaling technology The mission is a cornerstone of Project Proticity, a 2024 partnership between Unither Bioélectronique and Californian chopper maker Robinson Helicopter Company designed to modernize the R44 and R66 platforms. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 May 2026 The chopper landed for a prom send-off for Markham Park's executive director, Quintina Brown's daughter. —

Jermont Terry, CBS News, 12 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for chopper

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helicopter

Noun

Cotter, who helped organize the first-ever helicopter airlift from Camp One to rescue some of the wounded, said many lessons were learnt from the disaster.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
Rangers used a helicopter long-line to pluck the surviving climber from roughly 17,200 feet on the West Buttress route, a popular but perilous path riven with crevasses and ice.

— Becky Bohrer, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026