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as in organization
a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest
a proposal that is likely to meet with strong opposition from the local board of undertakers
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as in table
a leg-mounted piece of furniture with a broad flat top designed for the serving of food
in preparation for the governor's visit, the taverner arranged an array of fancy dishes and silverware on the inn's finest board
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as in to feed
to provide food or meals for
housed and boarded many foster children over the years
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as in to house
to provide with living quarters or shelter
boarded the stray cat until a permanent home could be found
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Recent Examples of board
Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 June 2025
OpenAI is currently completely controlled by its nonprofit board, which is purely answerable to the company’s founding mission: ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 20 June 2025
Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
Birthright Israel, a cultural and educational program mainly for young Jewish adults, said in a statement that the visitors boarded the Crown iris, an Israeli cruise vessel, for a 13-hour voyage to Larnaca, Cyprus, in the Mediterranean Sea.
—David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2025
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Noun
Its board includes representatives from Disney, Warner Bros., Netflix, and other studios, as well as Hollywood unions, including IATSE and SAG-AFTRA.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 June 2025
OpenAI is currently completely controlled by its nonprofit board, which is purely answerable to the company’s founding mission: ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 20 June 2025
Verb
The home had been boarded up in the wake of Saturday’s shooting.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
Birthright Israel, a cultural and educational program mainly for young Jewish adults, said in a statement that the visitors boarded the Crown iris, an Israeli cruise vessel, for a 13-hour voyage to Larnaca, Cyprus, in the Mediterranean Sea.
—David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for board
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It also is used in Europe in general, in different organizations like police, like border control.—
Rob Schmitz,
NPR,
28 June 2025
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The tramway building is home to 14 organizations and has been a hub for nonprofits since the 1990s.—
Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
28 June 2025
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Those punishingly high tariffs remain off the table, but the two sides have since accused the other of violating the framework.—
Haisten Willis,
The Washington Examiner,
26 June 2025
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Spectrum Internet plans Find Spectrum’s three internet plans and speeds in the following table.—
Kara McGinley,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
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If the Everglades don’t continue to feed enough fresh water into the system to keep salt water at bay, our drinking water would become saline.—
Denise Hruby,
Miami Herald,
19 June 2025
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Deep-seafloor-dwelling foraminifera, which were far away from the surface and were able to keep feeding on the remains of dead organisms, were mostly fine, but nine out of 10 planktonic species went extinct.—
Tim Vernimmen,
JSTOR Daily,
19 June 2025
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For six years, the building that once housed The Coffee Cup, a beloved neighborhood diner in St. Paul’s North End, sat empty.—
Jess Fleming,
Twin Cities,
19 June 2025
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Notably, the project will entail two significant additions to the current building – one addition to the front of the building for student and staff resources, and an addition in the back that will house primarily classrooms and science labs, Shearer said.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
18 June 2025
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The homeowners association will require residents to park inside their garages to prevent the spillover of parking onto neighborhood streets, See said.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 June 2025
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Just as plantation owners once claimed to know what was best for enslaved people — controlling their movement, their associations, their very thoughts — artificial intelligence systems now make similar claims about human behavior.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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The culprit could be that the laptop hasn’t been fully provisioned, the external hardware hasn’t been approved by IT or both.—
Daniel Root,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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No longer was the act of buying goods one of provisioning, asking for flour or butter from behind the counter.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
23 June 2025
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Hudson played three years with Harvey at UCF and roomed with him his senior year.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
2 June 2025
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Stanford freshman teammates, unlike at many schools, are not allowed to room together, and there are no guarantees they’ll even be paired with another athlete.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Stringer/Getty Images There are 59 active conflicts between nation states, an increase from last year and the most since World War II, according to the institute's 2025 Global Peace Index.—
Daniel Bush,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 June 2025
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For teachers, Brazil also launched a series of immersion retreats on the Paideia proposal in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, as well as a graduate institute at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, N.M.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2025
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“Board.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/board. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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