Thesaurus results for COPTER

copter

noun

ˈkäp-tər

as in helicopter

a vehicle for traveling through the air that obtains its lift from rotors which spin horizontally copters from the local TV stations made the obligatory reports on the bumper-to-bumper traffic at the start of the holiday weekend

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Recent Examples of copter These copters, presumably built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will carry cameras and ground-penetrating radars to scan the Martian terrain for subsurface water ice. —

Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 Mar. 2026 Kiddos can fly in Rosie’s cheese-copter, sit in Ada’s thinking chair, build a bridge with Iggy, lead a movement with Sofia and tell stories through illustration with Aaron, according to the museum. —

Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Mar. 2026 But the heroic racers managed to fix it in the dunes, with cargo straps, and the camera ‘copter got some epic footage of the thing clawing its way to the end of the stage. —

Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 14 Jan. 2026 That engine takes the copter to a cruising speed of a 62 mph (100 km/h). —

Ben Coxworth october 21, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for copter

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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