as in pilot
one who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft
her father was an airman who was shot down in Vietnam
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Recent Examples of airman
This had previously been confirmed by another National Guard official, state public affairs officer Major Ryan Finnegan, who gave some additional insight into the allegations and seemed to imply that the airmen had landed on the private ranch to pick up sheds.
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2025
The two airman inside the jet were said to have escaped safely.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
The two surviving airmen were captured by Japanese forces.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
An official released photo shows U.S. airmen conducting convoy operations with missiles on April 11 during the drill.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2025
The two airman inside the jet were said to have escaped safely.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
The two surviving airmen were captured by Japanese forces.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
An official released photo shows U.S. airmen conducting convoy operations with missiles on April 11 during the drill.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airman
Noun
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These swans have been spotted by pilots at heights of up to 25,000 feet during their transcontinental migrations between Europe and Asia.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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Mustered out from the Great War, veteran pilots — still hooked on the adrenaline rush of aerial combat — reenacted their exploits for the screen in rickety biplanes that seemed to have been stitched together from string and paper mache.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
14 June 2025
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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,
7 June 2025
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Amelia Earhart’s final flight Laurie Gwen Shapiro on the aviator and her publicity-mad husband.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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“Airman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airman. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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