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Recent Examples of flyboy
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.
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Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2022
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
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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Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2022
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
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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Princess Kate's late grandfather Captain Peter Middleton was a RAF pilot and even reportedly served as Prince Philip's copilot during a tour of South America in 1962. Can't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage?—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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That system then employs copilots and agentic AI to handle myriad tasks inside an organization.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
19 Sep. 2025
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Those gains have come through a number of recent measures by BCI Cotton, including initiating a two-year pilot program in Côte d’Ivoire this year to help cotton industry workers get access to quality healthcare through a digital platform operated by global health enterprise Elucid.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Oct. 2025
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The ground delays then affect pilots, flight attendants, and staff.—
Anna Giaritelli,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Oct. 2025
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When the aircraft starts actual flight testing, a test pilot will be on board to oversee the flight and can start and stop the autonomy in real time.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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Honeywell senior test pilot Capt. Kirk Vining late last month put the alerts — called Surface Alert, or SURF-A — to the test by recreating some of the most serious near disasters at airports in recent aviation history.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
27 Sep. 2025
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The unusual directive, marked as a top priority by the White House, has agents combing through decades-old files tied to the famed aviator.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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The aviator disappeared on July 2, 1937 while attempting to become the first woman to fly across the globe.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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Chinese air force airmen arrive at an air base in Thailand for Exercise Falcon Strike 2025 on September 16, 2025.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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The airmen tried to perform life-saving actions, but arriving first responders pronounced Badrian dead at the scene, the wing said.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Flyboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flyboy. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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