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helicoptering

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present participle of helicopter

as in orbiting

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In 2001, Canadarm2 was attached to the International Space Station and used to help build the orbiting laboratory.

— Joanna Goodrich, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026
Canada's GHGSat has a program in which employees name the company's Earth-orbiting satellites after family members, which has generated names from real-life people like Eleonore and Penny.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026

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Surveillance footage obtained by The News shows the explosion erupting on the building’s second floor, sending glass and other debris rocketing across the street.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Five months ago, Alayna Gibson, Holland Gillis and Sylvia Torkelson were all crammed onto a single snowmobile, rocketing across a wide snowfield toward Mount Erebus in Antarctica.

— Cooper Worth, Des Moines Register, 20 July 2026

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Then, after a bullet hit Kirk, Robinson could be seen darting across the roof, dropping to ground level and sprinting away on foot, Hull added.

— Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
Chelsea attack with venom; Cole Palmer, Joao Pedro and Morgan Rogers are darting flashes of blue steel.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

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Upon further review of the camera footage, Sam Gough, a park supervisor for the Incline Village General Improvement District, said the light appeared to be just a bug flitting across the lens.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026
An airy, not-too-sweet vanilla like Taunt is the perfect encapsulation of a Gemini who’s always flitting from one topic of interest to the next.

— Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 14 July 2026

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The institution had received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to realize the exhibition, which conservative politicians took issue with, catapulting Mapplethorpe’s to the center of the era’s culture wars.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026
What happened in Hamburg provides a particularly egregious example of such racial terrorism catapulting political triumph.

— Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026

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And by the looks of the first photos (below), Emily seems to be jetting off to meet her on-again, off-again chef boyfriend Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), picking up where season five left off.

— Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
And the entire team took the field on fumes after jetting across the country and landing early Monday morning following a three-game drubbing in Boston over the weekend.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

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