as in helicopter
a vehicle for traveling through the air that obtains its lift from rotors which spin horizontally
copters from the local TV stations made the obligatory reports on the bumper-to-bumper traffic at the start of the holiday weekend
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Recent Examples of copter
While still in the air, these copters would start up and fly away from the entry capsule, which would crash on the Martian surface as the autonomous aircraft make their own way down.
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David Szondy
august 01, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2025
Search: Boats, a copter and a postcard Within hours of the escape, investigators scoured the waters around Alcatraz.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
After the tragic April 10 copter crash, some city lawmakers renewed calls for an outright ban on nonessential helicopter flights.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
All that was needed was a target for the copters to search for.
—Steven Walker, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Nov. 2021
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David Szondy
august 01, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2025
Search: Boats, a copter and a postcard Within hours of the escape, investigators scoured the waters around Alcatraz.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
After the tragic April 10 copter crash, some city lawmakers renewed calls for an outright ban on nonessential helicopter flights.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
All that was needed was a target for the copters to search for.
—Steven Walker, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Nov. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for copter
Noun
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Temporary flight restrictions are active in the area, barring drones and other aircraft from interfering with the helicopters.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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Some search and rescue efforts involved helicopters rescuing people off the roofs of houses as they were surrounded by several feet of flooding, images that are reminiscent to rescues conducted during Hurricane Katrina, said US Coast Guard Capt.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2025
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Mealhelper 12-in-1 Vegetable Chopper, $13 with Prime This manual vegetable chopper is another kitchen gadget with a Kardashian stamp of approval.—
Kyra Surgent,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
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While Black Ops 6 toyed with a more grounded, back-to-the-basics approach of UAVs, airstrikes, and attack choppers as scorestreak rewards for tallying enough points or kills, the speculative fiction framework of BLOPS 7 means everything requires a heightened tone.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Copter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copter. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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