Thesaurus results for HELICOPTERS

helicopters 1 of 2

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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helicopters

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verb

present tense third-person singular of helicopter

as in jets

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Recent Examples of helicopters

Noun

Multiple helicopters and nearly 40 Cal Fire personnel are expected Thursday at Folsom Lake for aviation training exercises. —

Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2026 The need to close that gap is growing more urgent, thanks to a new generation of ambitious missions that aim to send more landers, rovers and even helicopters to Mars—and beyond. —

Leonard David, Scientific American, 6 May 2026 State troopers have employed helicopters in the manhunt. —

Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 6 May 2026 Kid Rock kicked off the first show of his Freedom 250 Tour in Dallas with a pre-show hype video featuring himself and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth riding in twin Apache helicopters. —

Jack Dunn, Variety, 2 May 2026 Law enforcement agencies, including local police, state troopers and the FBI, are searching for the suspect, using helicopters, drones and K-9 units. —

Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026 Plans included a network of robots and autonomous vehicles—such as helicopters designed by the German company Volocopter—all connected to a central AI system called Neos. —

Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 May 2026 Instead of just hitting the ground, the hail pounded the museum's collection of one‑of‑a‑kind planes and helicopters. —

Bo Evans, CBS News, 1 May 2026 Videos shared on social media by Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch show aerial shots of the arrest, with helicopters flying over the area during the deployment. —

Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026

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Noun

The report found that the choppers spend less than half of their flight time responding to violent crimes — findings that the department disputed in its own report.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
In this role, attack choppers could be modified to highly maneuverable launch platforms for loitering munitions.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 27 Apr. 2026