as in pilot
one who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft
her father was an airman who was shot down in Vietnam
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Recent Examples of airman
The two airman inside the jet were said to have escaped safely.
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Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
The two surviving airmen were captured by Japanese forces.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
An official released photo shows U.S. airmen conducting convoy operations with missiles on April 11 during the drill.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
The fighter bomber was used by the Black military pilots and airmen called the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
—Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Mar. 2025
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Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
The two surviving airmen were captured by Japanese forces.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
An official released photo shows U.S. airmen conducting convoy operations with missiles on April 11 during the drill.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
The fighter bomber was used by the Black military pilots and airmen called the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
—Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airman
Noun
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Leaders can look to public-private partnerships and scalable pilot projects to address these issues.—
Nadezhda Kosareva,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Currently 15 different states have sanctioned girls flag football as a high school varsity sport and 17 – Connecticut included – have started pilot programs.—
Joe Arruda,
Hartford Courant,
31 May 2025
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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,
27 May 2025
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The airfield famously hosted an aeronautical school in the 1940s, when the Army Air Corps relied on the facility to train aviators headed off to fight World War II.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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“Airman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airman. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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