chopped

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A further escalation came in 2005, when Bill Graham, then Canada’s defense minister, choppered onto Hans Island to walk the frigid ground himself.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2022

Host Rob Schmitt pointed out: “The timing is interesting, though, you have to admit. I mean, was it even a week later that they choppered him to Walter Reed? And the president was very sick.”

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2021

A week later, Gen Stanley McChrystal choppered into town with Karim Khalili, Afghanistan’s vice-president.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2018

Ronald Reagan reluctantly named Kerry to the delegation of election observers, and once there, Kerry choppered all over the country interviewing poll workers.

From Time • Dec. 21, 2012

First we choppered into a hot LZ and the pilots jerked us out and took us out of there and into the valley itself, which didn’t seem hot.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers