noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
helicopter
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Both planes and helicopter gunships had been used.
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Our forward observer and company commander came up and called in some helicopter gunships .
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Our helicopter gunships flew 118 missions and returned safely to base.
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As soldiers jumped out of the lorries, firing all around, helicopter gunships appeared overhead.
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It is indisputable, however, that the warplanes and helicopter gunships occasionally make mistakes.
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Countless unarmed civilians fleeing to the borders were killed by helicopter gunships .
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As helicopter gunships buzzed overhead and tanks shelled two blocks of flats nearby, bulldozers set about destroying a swath of homes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A visitor to Vadinamia is greeted, just outside territorial space, by the black-and-white gunships.
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Both planes and helicopter gunships had been used.
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Even if I hadn't expected the gunships, their colours would have told me what they were.
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It is indisputable, however, that the warplanes and helicopter gunships occasionally make mistakes.
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The gunships are like nothing else before them.
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The slicks slowed from 100 knots to about 80 to let the gunships fly ahead.
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There were two gunships with us, and they circled around first and took no fire.
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We were about a minute away from touchdown when the gunships started firing.