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
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
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
More flooding deaths were narrowly avoided one year ago when helicopters rescued dozens of people as Hurricane Helene engulfed Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tennessee.
—CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
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Noun
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
Verb
Yet there has been an asymmetry between the Sturm und Drang of that operation—a midnight raid featured agents rappelling from helicopters onto a South Side apartment building—and its effect.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
More flooding deaths were narrowly avoided one year ago when helicopters rescued dozens of people as Hurricane Helene engulfed Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tennessee.
—CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for helicopter
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Skubal issued a walk to Jose Ramirez, and after getting the next two batters to strikeout, Gabriel Arias’s high chopper for an infield hit saw Martinez dare Skubal by sprinting from second base to home.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Moments later, the couple disembarked from the chopper, walking hand-in-hand across the South Lawn.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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Over the summer the actress hit the desert and jetted to the islands with her boyfriend Van Hunt and wore an array of bikinis for their excursions.—
Starr Bowenbank,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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As per Union’s Instagram, the couple jetted in for some serious R&R over the weekend.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Sean Penn has rocketed to the top of leaderboards.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2025
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Cameron’s team built machines that were water jet propelled so that his actors could rocket through the water under the surface, come up and fly above the surface and then dive back in, all the while letting the technology drive the story and vice versa.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
1 Oct. 2025
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Eden played the titular 2,000-year-old genie named Jeannie opposite Larry Hagman's astronaut Tony Nelson, with the show catapulting the two costars into television history, thanks to their onscreen chemistry.—
Carson Blackwelder,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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The rookie's historic gem catapulted the New York Yankees into the American League Division Series, knocking out their archrival Boston Red Sox in the process.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Produced by Snarky Elephant Productions, the show is an offbeat yet timely exploration of the immigrant experience, told through the lens of a Chinese family running a failing restaurant on a space station orbiting Mars.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
7 Oct. 2025
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SpaceX has spent more than six years delivering the satellites to orbit with a regular cadence of rocket launches from both Florida and California.—
Eric Lagatta,
AZCentral.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Helicopter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helicopter. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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