Thesaurus results for HELICOPTERS

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noun

plural of helicopter

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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verb

present tense third-person singular of helicopter

as in jets

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Rescue teams and military helicopters searched Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, where a deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse. — Shristi Kafle, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 Riaz Lodhi, country director for the World Food Programme in Nepal, said rescue workers are trying to dig people out of the mud and that the Nepalese government is deploying helicopters to help. — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026 Brunton told The Times that the county was launching a pilot program (somewhat literally) to use helicopters as fire lookouts. — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 China deployed drones to assess the damage and prepared aircraft and helicopters for rescue operations. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 The 844-foot vessel serves as a seagoing platform for Marines, helicopters, and advanced combat aircraft. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026 There has been increased attention to airspace shared between helicopters and planes since last year’s midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67 people. — Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026 The helicopters have been employed around the Strait of Hormuz as part of the measures to maintain open navigation channels. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026 After using unconventional tactics, such as water-dropping helicopters, LAFD crews knocked down the fire and returned the property to Lineage for cleanup. — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026

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But Skyfall will be more capable than Ingenuity, whose main job was to show that choppers can explore the thin skies of Mars.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The president claimed that a new helipad had to be put in to preserve the White House lawn after the choppers used for Marine One were replaced in 2024 with more powerful aircraft.

— Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of choppers

Verb

The President frequently jets down to his Palm Beach property on weekends.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
Instead of Paris this time, the film jets off to another fabulous destination besides New York — Milan — for a huge fashion expo where Lady Gaga gets to perform and even exchange swipes with Miranda.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of jets

Verb

The stark white tip offers an especially bright touch that catapults the design into mod-era loveliness.

— Odeya Pinkus, InStyle, 17 Aug. 2026
For a few years now, there’s been at least one young Western Conference team that catapults up the standings from the lottery more dramatically than anyone predicts.

— Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 19 May 2026

Definition of catapults

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Its dimensions measure 10 by 14 by 11 miles (17 by 22 by 18 kilometers) across and orbits Mars three times each Martian day at a distance of about 3,700 miles (6,000 km).

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The Perseids, like all meteors, are offshoots from comets, specifically the Swift-Tuttle Comet which orbits the Sun every 133 years.

— Vince Basada, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026

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