Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helicoptering
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The discovery history of WISPIT 2 WISPIT 2b was the first infant planet discovered around this infant star, detected last year and determined to have a mass around five times that of Jupiter and orbiting its parent star at a distance equivalent to 60 times the distance between Earth and the sun.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
24 Mar. 2026 -
But despite a lot of space start-ups aiming to build orbiting habitats, no commercial space station has yet materialized, and NASA leadership is losing patience.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
24 Mar. 2026
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And yet another story was inscribed along the cliffs and slopes below a number of those viewpoints, where the wind had sent burning embers rocketing into the canyon, igniting extensive pockets of agave, yucca and various species of cactus.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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The Raiders gorged in a different way, blowing the center market out of the water with a massive, $27 million per year contract for Baltimore’s Tyler Linderbaum and rocketing toward the top of the league in money spent.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2026
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Nazar and Bertuzzi failed to convert on a two-on-none breakaway, but Nazar quickly grabbed the loose puck and found a darting Lardis to even the score at 1.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Everyone’s eyes were darting around the room.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Mar. 2026
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Jacir wants to show a cross section of people’s responses to these events, but the result often feels like scattershot scenes from a longer miniseries, flitting from one character to another with little narrative thrust or cohesion.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Fittingly, Daniel Pemberton’s score has that same sense of free-ranging curiosity, flitting between genres at will.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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The plan remains capitalizing upon the festival as a launchpad for stickiness, and catapulting movies from cult to mainstream status.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
11 Mar. 2026
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Saniya Banks began the fourth quarter with a jumper, catapulting the Bobcats into a 13-4 run.—
Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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For him, leaving UIL competition made sense, but jetting around the globe and competing against the world’s best isn’t the best option for some high school stars.—
Greg Riddle,
Dallas Morning News,
27 Mar. 2026
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After Friday night’s game in Utah, Hughes will be jetting to New York City to appear as a guest on Saturday Night Live.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
27 Feb. 2026
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October marks the start of butterfly season, with vibrant swarms fluttering well into the green season.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Mar. 2026
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The sudden movement sends the birds fluttering away from you, to watch and wait.—
Addie Citchens,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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My colleagues in European public broadcasting, in other countries — whether smaller countries that can’t afford to support their national production at the same level as ours, or countries as big as ours but facing the same budget constraints — are already diving into American fiction.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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Higgins was not diving with Conch Republic Divers.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Helicoptering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helicoptering. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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