as in chopper
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 helicopter
Raven Brunner, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
The helicopter then crashes into the aircraft and strikes it multiple times with its propeller before the engine dies, the video shows.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2024
Tim Lydon, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
Early Monday evening, Biden headed to San Diego International Airport to board Marine One to helicopter him to a fundraiser in Rancho Santa Fe.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
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Noun
Details on where the helicopter took off from or where it was headed is unknown, according to USA Today.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
The helicopter then crashes into the aircraft and strikes it multiple times with its propeller before the engine dies, the video shows.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2024
Verb
Botany crews travel to the island’s rough shores by boat or helicopter to remove weeds.
—Tim Lydon, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
Early Monday evening, Biden headed to San Diego International Airport to board Marine One to helicopter him to a fundraiser in Rancho Santa Fe.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for helicopter
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Other notable kitchen must-haves that are on sale for October Prime Day include a vegetable chopper and this Ninja air fryer with more than 69,000 perfect ratings.Toni Sutton, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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With a chopper, nothing is out of reach – and for the intrepid explorer yearning for true isolation, this is the stuff of dreams.Shaun Stanley, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
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If time in Homer allows, book a Kachemak Bay wildlife cruise to spot sea otters, seals, whales, and puffins before jetting back to Anchorage.Stephanie Vermillion, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
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Last week, the Lenzing Denim team jetted to Los Angeles to be part of the first-ever West Coast event held by Sourcing Journal and Rivet.Carved in Blue, Sourcing Journal, 2 Oct. 2024
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The department documented two police shootings in 2023 — one fatal and one nonfatal — but rocketed up to seven shootings and six deaths in 2024.Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
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Inflation briefly rocketed to more than 30%, causing poverty to tick up.Christian Edwards, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
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The mouthfeel of Sidekick is what catapults it past your run-of-the-mill soda.Andrew Watman, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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And a fledgling media division that seeks to catapult those books into various mediums.Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
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Penn State professor Joel Leja explains that machine learning is completely changing how astronomers process data, enabling rapid analysis of changes in star brightness and revealing orbiting planets.Shelli Brunswick, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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This ocean was likely created because of tidal forces between Miranda and the other moons of Uranus, which can be strengthened if the moons orbit around a planet at particular rates.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Helicopter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helicopter. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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