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Recent Examples of helipad
On the day of, a group of up to six will get door-to-door transportation as a car will transport them from anywhere in the Amalfi Coast to the helipad in Sorrento.
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Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 9 June 2025
The Escobar family posed for pictures on a chilly helipad jutting into the waters off Manhattan, smiling in front of the helicopter that would soon take them on a sightseeing tour of the city’s famous skyline.
—Liam Stack, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
An additional guesthouse, a helipad, a floating dock, and acres of surrounding land round out the impressive compound, which boasts 2,000 feet of Oyster Bay Harbor water frontage.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 30 May 2025
The crash victim, then 56, was airlifted from a helipad directly to an Illinois trauma hospital.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
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Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 9 June 2025
The Escobar family posed for pictures on a chilly helipad jutting into the waters off Manhattan, smiling in front of the helicopter that would soon take them on a sightseeing tour of the city’s famous skyline.
—Liam Stack, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
An additional guesthouse, a helipad, a floating dock, and acres of surrounding land round out the impressive compound, which boasts 2,000 feet of Oyster Bay Harbor water frontage.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 30 May 2025
The crash victim, then 56, was airlifted from a helipad directly to an Illinois trauma hospital.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for helipad
Noun
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After New York City capped the number of flights that could take off from Manhattan heliports at 30,000 annually in 2016, many companies moved operations to New Jersey.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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In the 2013 episode, a family of four tourists from Sweden was taking a sightseeing tour on a Sunday morning in June, in a red Bell 206 that took off from a heliport near Wall Street.—
Patrick McGeehan,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The library was stocked with 8,000 volumes of Everyman Classics and airport pulp.—
Guy Trebay,
Travel + Leisure,
15 July 2025
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In this case, the smart city is not being built on a former airport site, but on a one-time ranch devoted to raising cattle and rice.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
Noun
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The Borisoglebsk airfield in Russia's Voronezh Oblast was struck overnight, and imagery shared on social media showed the fiery aftermath of the attacks.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 July 2025
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The Ukrainian military also struck in the early hours of Saturday, targeting an airfield in the Russian town of Borisoglebsk, where fighter jets are based, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.—
Natalya Kushnir,
ABC News,
5 July 2025
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The $4 million munition is in high demand and was key to defending a major U.S. air base in Qatar last month as Iran launched a ballistic missile attack in response to the U.S. targeting its nuclear facilities.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
10 July 2025
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Pullman stars as President Thomas J. Whitmore, who takes command of an air base and delivers a massive speech to the awaiting fighters that are taking on an alien race that has invaded Earth.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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“Helipad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helipad. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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