fliers

variants also flyers
plural of flier
1
as in chances
a risky undertaking willing to take a flier on the bold, new venture

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2
as in pilots
one who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft a hot-air balloon flier

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Recent Examples of fliers For frequent flyers, Delta's scores represent a seismic shift. Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025 These picks are designed to make getting around smoother, way more efficient, and to help frequent fliers avoid travel chaos (think tangled necklaces, dead phone batteries, and neck strains). Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2025 Water bottles, napkins and flyers were strewn on the lawn. Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025 A couple of days later, putting up missing fliers for Moses, Laura finds herself in Cherry’s office’s neighborhood and decides to check if Cherry really works there. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025 The watch proved successful after managing to catch a man littering hate flyers across the neighborhood. David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025 Unless Congress acts, American fliers are once again left to fend for themselves—refreshing apps, queuing at customer-service desks, and hoping their next flight takes off on time. AFAR Media, 5 Sep. 2025 The October call was placed before any missing-person fliers about Wade had made it to Alaska, according to Cincinnati Enquirer columnist Camilla Warrick. Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025 News of the tour first surfaced on Reddit, after fans spotted flyers around several of the cities where the band will play. Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • Investors peg the chances of a quarter-point rate cut this month at about 90% and the odds of a half-point cut at nearly 10%, according to CME FedWatch Tool, a measure of market sentiment.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Former Brevard County School Board Member Jennifer Jenkins is launching a longshot Democratic bid for Marco Rubio’s former Senate seat — and hoping the polarizing prospect of bringing independents into the party’s primary will strengthen her chances.
    Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Graff tugs the reader from the earliest experiments in radiation to the young pilots who made an ashy hole of Nagasaki.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Certainly, new ideas were tossed around and even some pilots kicked off.
    Nathan Furr, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nike's new shift to align with Kim Kardashian for their women's primer product rather than an elite woman athlete reveals a new strategy and gambles that the trend in hyper-feminism aspiration is more representative of their current female customer base.
    C200, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Summits between heads of state are high-stakes gambles to achieve breakthrough solutions.
    Celeste A. Wallander, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Further elevating her practice, Jacobs belongs to a small club of artist/aviators including Doug Wheeler and James Turrell, whose experiences of flying small aircraft have opened an inimitable perspective on atmosphere and the aesthetics of the sublime.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Jessica, 45, donned a pair of aviators and an oversized red crewneck, while Johnson, 45, was seen sporting a Georgia Institute of Technology baseball cap and a blue button-down shirt over a black T-shirt.
    Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The serial businessman has stakes in the Washington Commanders, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Sparks, the Los Angeles Football Club and the Washington Spirit, among other business ventures.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Her bold spirit and belief in God's guidance have propelled her to pursue various impactful ventures.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Lerner believes that without smarter management, enterprises will face spiraling bills and strained infrastructure.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Its origins, in fact, lie in textile manufacturing, and that expertise in raw materials remains at the heart of all the brand’s enterprises.
    Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Smith, 34, zinged a few special throws well downfield, too, in his Raiders debut.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This is the team that walked off the Texas Rangers in late April when a bases-empty nubber and two wild throws resulted in a Little League home run for Heliot Ramos.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Fliers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fliers. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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