Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helicoptered
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Oracle’s stock had its best day since 1992, a 36% increase that catapulted co-founder Larry Ellison over Elon Musk to become the world’s richest person.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
10 Sep. 2025 -
Her outfits at Paris Fashion Week in March catapulted her into the next level of fashion stars.—
WWD Staff,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Grisly footage of the shooting rocketed across social media.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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Shoplifting became a political lighting rod, and videos of thieves smashing store windows and grabbing merchandise rocketed across the news and social media as a symbol of a breakdown across cities.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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An asteroid called 2024 PT5 orbited Earth for just 57 days in 2024 before slipping back into its solar orbit.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Spy satellites have orbited the Earth since the dawn of the Space Age.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
20 Aug. 2025
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His eyes darted around, finding nowhere to rest.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
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Some attendees darted to a nearby building and ran through a water fountain to escape.—
Rachel Wolf , Pilar Arias,
FOXNews.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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In October 2022, the tennis champ jetted off to Greece for a little getaway.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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The two recently jetted off on a romantic mini-break to the Maldives, which Fahy documented on Instagram via a series of sweet photographs of the pair having fun in the sun.—
Isaac Bickerstaff,
Glamour,
8 Jan. 2025
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Aronofsky has, since the grittiness of Pi and Requiem for a Dream, flitted with alacrity from genre to genre, trying his hand at biblical epics (Noah) and claustrophobic dramas (The Whale).—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
29 Aug. 2025
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Nine flies flitted about the place, three of which flew around utensils in kitchen storage.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Helicoptered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helicoptered. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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