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helicoptered

verb

past tense of helicopter

as in catapulted

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The experience catapulted Moody into not just the Fringe, but the wider London theater ecosystem, eventually leading to her big break with Fleabag in 2013.

— Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026
The power of those two songs catapulted Kings of Leon from hellraising upstarts who opened for rock giants like U2, the Rolling Stones, and Pearl Jam in the mid-aughts to global stardom.

— Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of catapulted

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Viewing to anime on Netflix has rocketed at almost 10 times the rate of the streamer’s total viewing numbers over the past three years.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 631 points and the 2-year Treasury yield, the security most sensitive to Fed rate expectations, rocketed more than 7 basis points higher.

— Jeff Cox, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of rocketed

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The $496 million GRAIL probes orbited the moon in an extremely low orbit, coming within 30 miles (50 km) of the lunar surface at their closest approach.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2026
In fact, just one spacecraft, NASA’s MESSENGER, has ever orbited the planet.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of orbited

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Boley made the correct read, pulled the ball and darted around the left edge after the Jayhawks lost contain.

— Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 19 Sep. 2026
Since that Tuesday when thousands were killed in New York, Washington, DC, and a field in Pennsylvania, news headlines have darted off in twisted directions.

— Nicole Avery Nichols, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026

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In the first weekend in July, Mahomes jetted to the East Coast for Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s wedding in New York City.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
During the first batch of episodes, the couples met, fell in love, came face-to-face and jetted off to their romantic honeymoons.

— Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of jetted

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By the front door, a hummingbird repeatedly flitted to the tubular magenta blooms of the Salvia spathacea.

— Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 18 Aug. 2026
The Spanish, who had at first just flitted along the coast in their galleons, had begun marching inland and overland from Mexico with crosses and soldiers and soldiers’ families.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

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