barnstormer

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Noun
  • The home is named after The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of more than 900 African-American military pilots and airmen who flew combat aircraft in World War II.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The difference between this Running Man and the Arnold Schwarzenegger film, this one takes place out in the real world with Powell’s Richards on the run in an apartment building, getting assaulted by pilots, and juggling grenades thrown at him.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The future will be defined by the interplay between agents and copilots, between automation and human oversight.
    Mike Villalobos, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • With aviators on, hair thickly gelled and a crisp white uniform, Iceman is a smooth-talking pilot with skills to match.
    Hank Sanders, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Judge Settle also called out the Trump administration for seemingly disregarding the service history of the transgender soldiers who brought the case, such as the Commander Emily Shilling, a naval aviator with 19 years of service who flew 60 combat missions before becoming a Navy test pilot.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The cost and the inspiration Carol, it should be noted, is a trouper.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Even though his health was failing up and down through the last three or four tours, what a trouper.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • Included among dozens of other characters are a submarine commander and his crew, a creepy coroner, a sweaty spy, an American flyboy, and even the soon-to-be spy novelist Ian Fleming.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The charismatic flyboy of the sequel trilogy is a true rebel, even questioning commands from his boss, and a top-notch choice for attacking an oversized space station.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
Noun
  • It's taken him two decades to achieve comfort as a thespian.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Given the weird psychology that drove the antagonists in the earlier films — a crazed lady taxidermist and then a psychopathic thespian, respectively — the villains’ thirst for riches here seems a little rote, while the use of El Dorado as a device just piles cliché on top of triteness.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Luis Marrero had 20 kills, 11 digs and 2 aces for Lake Brantley (12-2) in its 22-25, 25-19, 25-9, 25-22 win, while De’Aundre Williams had 15 kills and 5 blocks, and Efrain Rivera Rodriguez added 46 assists and 10 digs.
    Steve Gorches, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Boys volleyball Tuto Sampaio erupted for 19 kills, four aces and nine digs to anchor Winchester in a 3-2 Middlesex League win over Arlington.
    Kristina Banahan, Boston Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Carter, who knew Princess Diana, theorized how the late Princess of Wales would have felt about Harry’s starlet spouse.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The message is very clear, painting a picture of a rogue starlet potentially sinking her own film with politics, with very little focus on the fact that the movie was simply not good.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Barnstormer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barnstormer. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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