copilot
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Last month a small plane crashed into the side of a building in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte, killing the pilot and copilot.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Autopilot is an evolution of Luminance's copilot tool, which colour-codes clauses for legal professionals as they review a contract in Word.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2023
He said the helicopter, occupied by a pilot and copilot, flew another mile before making an emergency landing at about 4:40 p.m. along the shore of the river.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
He served in Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter copilot gunner in 2012-2013.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 9, 2023
As a final honor, Marina’s ashes were placed in the Kremlin wall next to Polina Osipenko’s, the woman who’d been Valentina Grizodubova’s copilot on the Rodina flight.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
“Fictitious friends and mannequin copilots won’t cut it,” said CHP officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI and staked its future on the startup, releasing what it called AI copilots to business customers based on OpenAI's technology.
From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2023
The project will create AI copilots to assist staff at customer companies as they design new products, and organise production and maintenance.
From Reuters ● Oct. 31, 2023
We're like copilots, there is no captain, and what we're saying, with greater or lesser degrees of urgency is: "Look out! Pull up!"
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
For example, many airlines teach a standardized procedure for copilots to challenge the pilot if he or she thinks something has gone terribly awry.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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