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Recent Examples of helipad
On the day of, a group of up to six will get door-to-door transportation as a car will transport them from anywhere in the Amalfi Coast to the helipad in Sorrento.
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Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 9 June 2025
The Escobar family posed for pictures on a chilly helipad jutting into the waters off Manhattan, smiling in front of the helicopter that would soon take them on a sightseeing tour of the city’s famous skyline.
—Liam Stack, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
An additional guesthouse, a helipad, a floating dock, and acres of surrounding land round out the impressive compound, which boasts 2,000 feet of Oyster Bay Harbor water frontage.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 30 May 2025
The crash victim, then 56, was airlifted from a helipad directly to an Illinois trauma hospital.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
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Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 9 June 2025
The Escobar family posed for pictures on a chilly helipad jutting into the waters off Manhattan, smiling in front of the helicopter that would soon take them on a sightseeing tour of the city’s famous skyline.
—Liam Stack, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
An additional guesthouse, a helipad, a floating dock, and acres of surrounding land round out the impressive compound, which boasts 2,000 feet of Oyster Bay Harbor water frontage.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 30 May 2025
The crash victim, then 56, was airlifted from a helipad directly to an Illinois trauma hospital.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for helipad
Noun
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After New York City capped the number of flights that could take off from Manhattan heliports at 30,000 annually in 2016, many companies moved operations to New Jersey.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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In the 2013 episode, a family of four tourists from Sweden was taking a sightseeing tour on a Sunday morning in June, in a red Bell 206 that took off from a heliport near Wall Street.—
Patrick McGeehan,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Environmental concerns have long hampered plans to expand the airport, as efforts to preserve the marshlands, which are a crucial source of freshwater for South Florida, have routinely clashed with business interests.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
1 July 2025
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Such tactics have worked in the past: The Dade-Collier facility was envisioned as the largest airport in the world before protests and an environmental review convinced the government to stop work on the site in 1970.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
1 July 2025
Noun
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The Ukrainian military also struck in the early hours of Saturday, targeting an airfield in the Russian town of Borisoglebsk, where fighter jets are based, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.—
Natalya Kushnir,
ABC News,
5 July 2025
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The Borisoglebsk airfield in Russia's Voronezh Oblast was struck overnight, and imagery shared on social media showed the fiery aftermath of the attacks.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 July 2025
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The Pentagon on Thursday released an extraordinary number of details about the military's top-secret bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities and its defense of an air base in Qatar.—
Anne Flaherty,
ABC News,
26 June 2025
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Tuesday morning's developments come after Iran targeted the U.S. military's largest Middle East air base with a missile attack Monday in an apparent response to U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities days earlier.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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“Helipad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helipad. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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