flyboy

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Recent Examples of flyboy This Korean War flyboy drama was largely passed over at TIFF, but an Audience Award at the Middleburg Film Festival put it back on pundits’ radars. Vulture, 18 Nov. 2022 Starring Jonathan Majors as Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in Navy history, and Powell as his flyboy friend Tom Hudner, Devotion, based on the bestselling book of the same name, opened with $9 million over the holiday weekend. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2022 So with all that, why the optimism now for Tom Cruise’s flyboy movie? Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022 Enter a cocky 60-year-old flyboy and his rag-tag team of young fighter pilots. Frank Pallotta, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022 See All Example Sentences for flyboy
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Noun
  • Already bots are handling basic queries from customers, allowing human operators—often working with an AI copilot—to focus on trickier problems.
    Gary Rivlin, Time, 4 June 2025
  • With your second house of indulgence and third house of short trips being activated this summer, this bag will be the ultimate copilot for your spontaneous errands and shopping adventures!
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Mustered out from the Great War, veteran pilots — still hooked on the adrenaline rush of aerial combat — reenacted their exploits for the screen in rickety biplanes that seemed to have been stitched together from string and paper mache.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025
  • These swans have been spotted by pilots at heights of up to 25,000 feet during their transcontinental migrations between Europe and Asia.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • That record was beat just three years later when 90-year-old former Air Force test pilot Ed Dwight flew on a Blue Origin Rocket.
    Brie Stimson, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • With Archer’s chief test pilot, Jeff Greenwood, at the helm, Midnight cruised at speeds up to 125 mph and reached a maximum altitude of over 1,500 feet.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Axiom Space’s Director of Human Spaceflight and former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is the mission commander with aviator John Shoffner as pilot and two mission specialist seats paid for by the Saudi Space Commission, Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 June 2025
  • Amelia Earhart’s final flight Laurie Gwen Shapiro on the aviator and her publicity-mad husband.
    Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • The lawsuit comes one day after a federal judge in New Jersey blocked the military from separating two transgender airmen under Trump’s order.
    Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 25 Mar. 2025
  • For him and other Black airmen, the waivers became a symbol of unity.
    Marquise Francis, NBC news, 24 May 2025

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“Flyboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flyboy. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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