as in choppers
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 helicopters
James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
In Chicago, federal agents rappelled from Black Hawk helicopters onto an apartment building.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
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
Federal immigration officials have followed people in their cars, rappelled from helicopters in an apartment building raid, and clashed with protesters at a facility in the suburbs.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025
News helicopters caught agents coming and going from those homes and searching vehicles outside.
—Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025
Authorities utilized helicopters and issued an Ambert Alert to assist with the search, the affidavit states.
—Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
The training mission was first reported by The Washington Post, which cited its own analysis of imagery posted online that showed MH-6 Little Bird attack helicopters and MH-60 Black Hawks flying about 90 miles from Venezuela's coastline near oil and gas platforms.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2025
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Presumably, if helicopters were as quiet as eVTOLs, would our cities currently have hundreds or thousands of helicopters flying around?
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
In Chicago, federal agents rappelled from Black Hawk helicopters onto an apartment building.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
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
Federal immigration officials have followed people in their cars, rappelled from helicopters in an apartment building raid, and clashed with protesters at a facility in the suburbs.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025
News helicopters caught agents coming and going from those homes and searching vehicles outside.
—Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025
Authorities utilized helicopters and issued an Ambert Alert to assist with the search, the affidavit states.
—Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
The training mission was first reported by The Washington Post, which cited its own analysis of imagery posted online that showed MH-6 Little Bird attack helicopters and MH-60 Black Hawks flying about 90 miles from Venezuela's coastline near oil and gas platforms.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helicopters
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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
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While Black Ops 6 toyed with a more grounded, back-to-the-basics approach of UAVs, airstrikes, and attack choppers as scorestreak rewards for tallying enough points or kills, the speculative fiction framework of BLOPS 7 means everything requires a heightened tone.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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Season 2 will focus on three more scenic escapes as Ross jets off to new destinations.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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The same title, Boone’s sophomore project, also rockets almost 25 spaces up the Official Album Downloads chart.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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While the Packers were likely seen as a playoff contender, the addition of Parsons now catapults them into a new category.—
Eduardo Razo,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Everything within the solar wind is inside the Sun’s extended atmosphere, known as the heliosphere, which means that, in a sense, Earth orbits through the Sun itself.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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That's because of how the moon orbits our planet.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Helicopters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helicopters. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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