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copters

noun

plural of copter

as in helicopters

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 copters Ryan McCrory, a fire captain on the Hawk, said the copters can hold 1,000 gallons of water, and have increased speed over previous copters in flying to dips. — Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2026 The crash resulted in even more damage when the falling copters landed on an electric vehicle yard, causing at least 20 cars to catch fire, CNN Brazil reported. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026

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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
Riaz Lodhi, country director for the World Food Programme in Nepal, said rescue workers are trying to dig people out of the mud and that the Nepalese government is deploying helicopters to help.

— Diaa Hadid, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026

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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

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