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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
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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flyboy
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This is not chatbots and copilots, this is a case of AI agents with yellow hard hats.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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The discussions will be transformed into true thought experiments on future scenarios with board members as strategic copilots.—
Paroon Chadha,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Meta, Microsoft and Google reference pilot programs, but don't provide any substantive public documentation on governance frameworks or outcomes.—
Emma Woollacott,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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The Democratic Socialist’s most notable legislative accomplishment has been pushing through a pilot program that made a handful of city buses free for a year.—
Philip Marcelo,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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During its first test flight, part of the mounting failed on takeoff and the test pilot safely brought the car/plane back to earth.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 June 2025
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That record was beat just three years later when 90-year-old former Air Force test pilot Ed Dwight flew on a Blue Origin Rocket.—
Brie Stimson,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
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In Top Gun, Tom Cruise (who famously does all his own stunts) stars as Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell, a daring naval aviator training at the elite Top Gun school.—
Jené Luciani Sena
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FOXNews.com,
30 June 2025
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In the years since his initial turn as Top Gun's famed aviator, Cruise only became more of a star.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
29 June 2025
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Christian Diaz, a U.S. airman stationed in South Korea, was kayaking with friends while off-duty during a deployment to Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks for an exercise, according to the Fairbanks fire and police departments and Air Force officials.—
Sara Schilling,
Sacbee.com,
30 June 2025
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The airman, named as 1st Class Lt. Col. Maksym Ustymenko by the Ukrainian air force, was the third F-16 pilot killed since the Ukrainians began flying the jets last summer, and his plane was the fourth F-16 Ukraine has lost since then.—
Kostya Gak,
CNN Money,
29 June 2025
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“Flyboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flyboy. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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