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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.
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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
So with all that, why the optimism now for Tom Cruise’s flyboy movie?
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
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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
So with all that, why the optimism now for Tom Cruise’s flyboy movie?
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flyboy
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The company said there were four crew members and two passengers on the plane at the time – a pilot, copilot, physician, paramedic, pediatric patient and her mother.—
Anders Hagstrom,
Fox News,
4 Feb. 2025
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Here's who is eligible, how to file Air ambulance passengers, flight crew identified While Philadelphia recovers, the families of the six people aboard the plane − a pilot and copilot, two medical personnel, a patient and her mother −mourn.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
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The team is running a small pilot program that is putting heart monitors on six seal pups.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
14 Feb. 2025
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At Giorgio Armani a pilot silhouette nodded to vintage eyewear designs, ditto for the new styles in Carrera’s women’s collection.—
Martino Carrera,
WWD,
14 Feb. 2025
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The test pilots were to originally spend eight days aboard the ISS in June, but this grew to eight months after NASA decided to bring Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule back to Earth without a crew in September.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
19 Dec. 2024
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One of my test pilot school classmates, Josh Kutryk, was selected to the Canadian astronaut program.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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The three aviators from the helicopter who were identified by the Army: The plane carried talented and ambitious young skaters from around the country.—
Julie Bosman,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2025
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Related article Exclusive: NTSB fought to retain employees after Trump’s federal worker resignation offer Those who were killed included three Army aviators in the Black Hawk: Capt. Rebecca Lobach, 28, who was identified Saturday; Staff Sgt.—
Kaanita Iyer,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
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But this plane, the airman told Ceraudo and Lewin, was basically running on fumes.—
Joshua Hammer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Dec. 2024
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African-American airmen training at Tuskegee Airfield in Alabama.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Flyboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flyboy. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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