whiteboard
noun
white·board
ˈ(h)wīt-ˌbȯrd 
: a hard smooth white surface used for writing or drawing on with markers
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Strategize With Experts Outside Your Business Do a whiteboard strategy session with experts who don't know your specific business well for some fresh perspectives.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
To keep track of Lennie’s complicated medication schedule, Ashlee and Clint write it on a whiteboard.
—Gina Kolata Kim Raff, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
In addition to the large meeting room, two four-person study rooms have monitors that can connect to laptops, as well as whiteboard walls.
—Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
As Porter — of whiteboard fame — and Schiff demonstrated, reputations can be made and careers may be more fruitfully built in the TV studios of Washington, on the House floor or inside the committee rooms where inquisitions are broadcast from Capitol Hill.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
Seeking Mavis Beacon opens with a ritual under the starry night sky of Los Angeles: Two people costumed in clothes that look pulled from Puck’s closet wheel a whiteboard onto the street.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
Porter has famously drilled people in congressional hearings with questions, using a whiteboard to illustrate her points.
—Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
Dutcher says it all the time — that whatever play you scribble on the whiteboard during a timeout usually doesn’t work, that more important is what happens if or when the initial action is stopped, that players win games.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024
The menu is a list of salads, cured meats and cheeses for antipasti, sandwiches served on focaccia and pasta dishes scribbled on a whiteboard.
—Jill Cassidy, The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2024
Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
To keep track of Lennie’s complicated medication schedule, Ashlee and Clint write it on a whiteboard.
—Gina Kolata Kim Raff, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
In addition to the large meeting room, two four-person study rooms have monitors that can connect to laptops, as well as whiteboard walls.
—Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
As Porter — of whiteboard fame — and Schiff demonstrated, reputations can be made and careers may be more fruitfully built in the TV studios of Washington, on the House floor or inside the committee rooms where inquisitions are broadcast from Capitol Hill.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
Seeking Mavis Beacon opens with a ritual under the starry night sky of Los Angeles: Two people costumed in clothes that look pulled from Puck’s closet wheel a whiteboard onto the street.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
Porter has famously drilled people in congressional hearings with questions, using a whiteboard to illustrate her points.
—Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
Dutcher says it all the time — that whatever play you scribble on the whiteboard during a timeout usually doesn’t work, that more important is what happens if or when the initial action is stopped, that players win games.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024
The menu is a list of salads, cured meats and cheeses for antipasti, sandwiches served on focaccia and pasta dishes scribbled on a whiteboard.
—Jill Cassidy, The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2024
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whiteboard
noun
white·board
ˈhwīt-ˌbō(ə)rd
-ˌbȯ(ə)rd,
ˈwīt-
: a hard smooth white surface used for writing or drawing on with markers
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