copilot
noun
co·pi·lot
ˈkō-ˌpī-lət 
: a qualified pilot who assists or relieves the pilot but is not in command
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Morales had been rescued by Brothers to the Rescue four years earlier while attempting to cross the straits on a makeshift raft and later joined the group as a copilot.
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Rick Jervis, USA Today, 18 May 2026
After achieving 30% adoption for a coding copilot that was rolled out by HubSpot, Lennox and his team shared incident data that showed engineers that the work being done by teams using that tool wasn’t negatively affecting reliability versus those that weren’t.
—John Kell, Fortune, 13 May 2026
Sylvia, my copilot, snores softly.
—Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
There’s a lot of focus on copilots and chat interfaces but little on whether APIs can support autonomous usage.
—Baptiste Parravicini, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2026
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Rick Jervis, USA Today, 18 May 2026
After achieving 30% adoption for a coding copilot that was rolled out by HubSpot, Lennox and his team shared incident data that showed engineers that the work being done by teams using that tool wasn’t negatively affecting reliability versus those that weren’t.
—John Kell, Fortune, 13 May 2026
Sylvia, my copilot, snores softly.
—Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
There’s a lot of focus on copilots and chat interfaces but little on whether APIs can support autonomous usage.
—Baptiste Parravicini, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2026
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“Copilot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copilot. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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copilot
noun
co·pi·lot
ˈkō-ˌpī-lət
: a pilot who assists the pilot or commander of a flight of an aircraft or spacecraft
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