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noun

an overview of a situation without any details

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Words nearby helicopter view

helicopt, helicopter, helicopter gunship, helicopter parent, helicopter parenting, helicopter view, helicospore, helicotrema, heliculture, helideck, heliencephalitis

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How to use helicopter view in a sentence

In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
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Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds.
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There had long been another view, however, called “premillennialism.”
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Barry showed me his room—a one bedroom with a killer view of Riverbank State Park and the Hudson.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside|Justin Rohrlich|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Guy Molinari, a former Staten Island borough president, pushed back against that view.
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His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
The Vine is a universal favorite, and rarely out of view; while it often seems to cover half the ground in sight.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Not much use as the high crests hid the intervening hinterland from view, even from the crow's nests.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
I knew the world had nothing like her, and yet the impression she has made on me, at the first view, is unexpectedly great.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley