helicopter
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He describes how leaving felt like a movie where someone boards the last helicopter flight out of a besieged city.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Plus, bad luck, bad blood and a trail of tragic missteps in the Nancy Guthrie investigation, and helicopter parenting in the workplace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Rather than call for a helicopter rescue, Cifaldi hiked 10 miles down the mountain on foot.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The white station building was untouched as was a red firefighting truck and small helicopter parked in front of the building.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
There was a helicopter somewhere right above them, but they couldn’t see it in the snowstorm.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Fire officials warned that "unauthorized" drone incursions into restricted airspace above wildfires were forcing the grounding of helicopters and other aircraft fighting the blazes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Between stops, he watched National Guard helicopters fly in vital drinking water.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Spain’s firefighting fleet includes 15 water-scooping planes, reconnaissance aircraft and helicopters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Two aircraft and five helicopters were deployed alongside about 100 firefighters to contain the fire, the Greek fire service said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The night the helicopters came in, the vibrations pummeled us out of our beds.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Mass opposition and a coup briefly deposed him, but after three days under guard on a military island, he helicoptered back to Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
Instead, they recommended that Nusslock be helicoptered to UC San Francisco for an abortion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
I could not see anything and I was helicoptered out, before spending two weeks in a coma in an army hospital in Kabul.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
On the couple’s 10-year anniversary, they helicoptered to the emperor penguin colony on Snow Hill Island, then to a tubular iceberg where the client finally proposed.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
I helicoptered my arms, trying to catch my balance.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
Wainschel, a vice president at an automotive marketing technology company, says he doesn’t think his outreach qualifies as helicoptering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The priciest dish on the menu tastes like roast beef with a little helicoptering from ginger and turmeric.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
He tumbled out of bounds at nearly 60 miles per hour, his skis helicoptering into the netting on one side of the slope.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
“Your moral stature is actually enhanced the more persecuted you are or want to be. It’s a generation of overparenting, protecting children from every conceivable harm, helicoptering over them and infantilizing them.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
A few fall, helicoptering down to the forest floor.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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