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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flyboy
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
  • The premise for the second season of his HBO series The Rehearsal is that poor communication between copilots and airplane captains leads to crashes.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Leaders can look to public-private partnerships and scalable pilot projects to address these issues.
    Nadezhda Kosareva, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • The two test pilots were originally set to return on Boeing's Starliner capsule, but critical failures during its first crewed flight forced NASA to extend their stay and transfer them to SpaceX for their journey home.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 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, 27 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • For him and other Black airmen, the waivers became a symbol of unity.
    Marquise Francis, NBC news, 24 May 2025
  • Stallworth was a 27-year-old airman stationed at Hill Air Force Base at the time of Gallegos's death.
    Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 16 May 2025

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“Flyboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flyboy. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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