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
The Lincoln, its broad flight deck packed with helicopters and warplanes, including the latest F-35 fighter jets, arrived in Laem Chabang early Sept 2. — USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026 Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn has long opposed the eradication, ever since a previous plan called for sharpshooters to take aim at the deer from helicopters. — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 Snipers were stationed atop MSG, with surveillance helicopters heard overhead. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026 The Martian atmosphere is thin, just 1 percent the density of air at sea level on Earth, so helicopters flying on Mars must spin their rotors faster than on Earth to generate lift. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026 The mission includes prairies, plains, and mountains, where helicopters need to fly over remote areas at any time of day. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026 Within an hour, National Park Service helicopters were deployed to start rescuing people. — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026 For the rest of the day, as planes and helicopters dropped water, Olstead worked the fire line with the dozer while others put out spot fires with pumps and hoses. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helicopters
  1. choppers
  2. jets
  3. rockets
  4. catapults
  5. orbits
Noun
  • 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
  • Following Parton’s death, the collection rockets all the way to first place with only a few days of solid tracking activity behind its ascent.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The album also rockets 14-4 on the Top Streaming Albums chart.
    — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2025
Definition of rockets
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
Verb
  • Astronomers have discovered a new ocean world outside the solar system that orbits extremely close to its parent star.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The new definition of a planet, according to Nat Geo, is an object that orbits the Sun, is large enough to have become round (due to the force of its own gravity) and dominates the neighborhood around its orbit.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of orbits

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“Helicopters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helicopters. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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