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Recent Examples of barnstormer
Blakeney marveled later that no play existed about Coleman, who earned her international pilots license two years before Earhart, and went on to become a popular barnstormer.
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Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Nov. 2025
While a new generation of young singer-songwriters encroaches on country music’s old guard by the day, the Texas barnstormer has found his footing with a fan base hell-bent on capturing every moment Myers affords them.
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Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Nov. 2025
While a new generation of young singer-songwriters encroaches on country music’s old guard by the day, the Texas barnstormer has found his footing with a fan base hell-bent on capturing every moment Myers affords them.
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Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barnstormer
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But a director hired to helm a pilot, as James Burrows, who died Friday at 85, was again and again — almost as a lucky charm — helps set the tone for the series.
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This capital injection will fund the completion of an assembly facility near Portland, Oregon, and accelerate a pilot deployment in the northern Pacific Ocean later this year.
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The president’s instinct to go for the jugular was on display in his first campaign, when he was written off early on as an entertainer but found success with brutal takedowns.
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Winter wants to be strong enough to perform by August 1 when friend and fellow drag entertainer Charity Kase comes to Kansas City.
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The inaugural flight took place from Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport in France, where test pilot Sébastien Dupont de Dinechin and copilot Fabrice Dougnac lifted off aboard the Falcon 10X for a mission lasting approximately two and a half hours.
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The four founded Cursor in 2022, initially focusing on building an AI copilot for the mechanical engineering industry.
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Last week, Wilkins was named as being a performer at a Freedom 250 event to be held in Belgium June 28, opening for the Zac Brown Band.
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Her collection preserves not only the traces of a public life, but evidence of a performer who refused to separate politics from performance and performance from ephemerality.
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However, instead of the rounded bug-eye styles favored by early-aughts paparazzi fixtures like Nicole Richie and Mary-Kate Olsen, mask-like aviator silhouettes are the way to go.
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The wraparound aviator style is yellow-tinted, larger than life, and vintage-inspired at its core.
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The trouper from Chicago who played Olivia was now throwing fits about rehearsing with an intern.
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Above, she's pictured with Second City troupers Joe Flaherty, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas and long-time collaborator, Eugene Levy, at a 10 year reunion for the sketch show's Canadian debut.
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Isom, like his predecessor Doug Parker, is not a showman like the flyboys of past generations.
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For now, the flyboy will be resting in the barracks.
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Colman Domingo and Sarah Pidgeon are true thespians.
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Vivienne Westwood has reimagined the outdoor terrace of J Sheekey to mark the 130th anniversary of the landmark London restaurant that started as a stall holder in 1896 serving post-theater suppers to hungry thespians and audiences.
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“Barnstormer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barnstormer. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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