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
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Noun
  • These tools, from chatbots helping with customer inquiries to AI copilot functionalities found in platforms such as Microsoft and Salesforce, streamline processes.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • While many legacy cybersecurity vendors have released AI copilots or assistants, only a small group have rolled out agents that can take autonomous action.
    Sam Sabin, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Mike stages a fake interview — à la the pilot episode, Barbri legal handbook and all — and insists Harvey get rid of his too-fat ties.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 9 May 2025
  • Artificial intelligence — particularly generative AI — drives this resurgence as enterprises rapidly shift from pilot projects to full-scale production deployments.
    Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • In Green Lantern, Reynolds portrayed Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is granted superpowers and joins an intergalactic police force via an all-powerful green ring that grants him his powers.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Emily Shilling, one of the transgender soldiers who brought the case, is a naval aviator with 19 years of service and flew 60 combat missions before becoming a Navy test pilot.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 24 Apr. 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, 13 May 2025
  • In the 1920s, aviators captivated the public with stunts that, though dangerous and probably considered unnecessary to most, laid the groundwork for modern aviation.
    Jasmine Leflore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • The Federal Aviation Administration has also issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM) in relation to the advisory.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • And, shortly after the new administration arrived in town, the Air Force reportedly briefly removed training material with videos of Tuskegee airmen, Black World War II heroes.
    Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Flyboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flyboy. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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