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
Veralyn Williams, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
The Ford also carries electronic-jamming aircraft, airborne early warning and control planes, cargo and passenger planes and helicopters.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 25 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
After midnight on September 30th, helicopters hovered above a large Chicago apartment building, and heavily armored agents rappelled from the choppers onto the roof.
—Veralyn Williams, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
The Ford also carries electronic-jamming aircraft, airborne early warning and control planes, cargo and passenger planes and helicopters.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for helicopter
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The county will get the chopper up to Cal Fire specifications, the same as those used in Los Angeles County, Orange County and the city of San Diego.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Oct. 2025
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The single-engine, light utility chopper — sometimes flown for touring and shuttle services — has been involved in more than 100 crashes since 2004, according to the Aviation Safety Network, including those under its affiliated name, the EC130.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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In the 1960s, Jay Sebring made a giant leap from middle-class Michigan boy and Navy veteran to stylist to the stars, tooling around Hollywood in his Shelby Cobra convertible and jetting off to cut the hair of Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and more.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 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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Investors ought to steer clear of Beyond Meat due to weakening consumer demand for alternative meat products, analysts from Mizuho said after the stock rocketed higher earlier this week.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
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The show rocketed Johnson to pin-up-star status in the role of white-suit-wearing Sonny Crockett, while Philip Michael Thomas played his partner Tubbs.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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After Arthur Anderson folded, Townes-Whitley charted a new course by joining Unisys, a server infrastructure company, which catapulted her into the tech world.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Orlean’s writing about Rajneeshpuram catapulted her to the national stage and led to calls from venues like Glamour and Vogue.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Similar to finding that planets do not orbit the earth, the search for economics anomalies requires searching for empirical facts that cannot (easily) be explained using the standard economic model where everyone chooses by optimizing and makes no systematic mistakes.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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The first Artemis mission got off the ground in November 2022, when an uncrewed Orion capsule launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a moon-orbiting mission to test the vehicle.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Helicopter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helicopter. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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