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Recent Examples of flyboy
Or that those are all hallucinatory images coming from the last synaptic firings of a past-his-prime flyboy getting smeared across the horizon alongside the pieces of his jet?
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Vulture, 29 May 2022
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
Brawn and brains, flyboy and nerd, working together to take out the baddies.
—Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2010
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
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Vulture, 29 May 2022
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
Brawn and brains, flyboy and nerd, working together to take out the baddies.
—Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2010
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flyboy
Noun
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An employee could query the chat or copilot to get access to colleagues’ email content, potentially exposing personal information, client communications or executive discussions.—
Keren Katz,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Watch the video above to see the moment a flight instructor asked his girlfriend to be his copilot for life!—
Ronnie Li,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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Investigators are focusing on pilot training, aircraft design and landing techniques as part of a broader probe into systemic vulnerabilities.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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Key areas of focus include service and claims processing, where pilots and proofs of concept have already moved into production.—
Peter High,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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So many problems cropped up on the way to the space station that NASA eventually sent Starliner back empty and transferred the test pilots to SpaceX, pushing their homecoming into February.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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Williams later trained as a rotary aircraft test pilot before being selected by NASA in 1998 while deployed on the USS Saipan.—
Amanda Castro,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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Designer Michael Kors directly referenced Steinem as an inspiration for his fall 2023 collection, which was filled with low-slung belts, aviators, and oversized jewelry.—
Leah Bourne,
Glamour,
25 Mar. 2025
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New Shepard completed its first crewed flight in July 2021; onboard were Bezos; his brother, Mark Bezos; pioneering aviator Wally Funk; and Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen.—
David K. Li,
NBC News,
27 Feb. 2025
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's comments in the Signal chat detailed the sequencing, timing and weapons systems in advance of the Trump administration's March attack on Houthi militants in Yemen, potentially jeopardizing U.S. airmen headed into harm's way.—
Graham Underwood,
Arkansas Online,
2 Apr. 2025
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Only the myriad airmen launching a strike across a hostile shore.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Flyboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flyboy. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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