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Recent Examples of board
Noun
Then there’s the Prince Harry reunion, something Prince William was reportedly not on board with. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2025 In response, multiple local officials apologized, including one commissioner who emphasized that the park board is for everyone. Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
George MacKay and Callum Turner star in the eerie drama, playing fishermen in a remote village in Cornwall who board a mysterious ship that appears to be caught in a time loop. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025 When Lo boards the yacht, she’s soon met by a murderer’s row of, well, maybe actual murderers! Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for board
Recent Examples of Synonyms for board
Noun
  • The City of Oceanside Arts Commission and the Oceanside Cultural District will be awarding a total of $150,000 in grants to local artists and arts organizations.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Two editors from within The Kansas City Star’s newsroom will become the 145-year-old media organization’s new managing editors.
    The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As of February 2024, the North Seattle plan was formally off the table.
    Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The away supporters at Molineux did not have much else to shout about until the Dutch central defender’s 86th-minute header rescued a 1-1 draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers, who remain winless at the foot of the table.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Cool-season grasses like Kentucky bluegrass, tall fescue, and perennial ryegrass have the most active growth during fall, so feeding during September or October means the grass roots will absorb fertilizer well.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers used census data to analyze the sociodemographic makeup of the communities near feeding operations.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Tang Wing, a collaboration with the architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle, will also house rotating special exhibitions, requiring blank canvases of sorts.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The team performed the measurements using the JYFLTRAP double-Penning trap, which is a world-class instrument housed in the university’s accelerator laboratory.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The company operates these systems under contract with law enforcement agencies, neighborhood associations, and private property owners.
    Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The players’ association and the WNBA agreed to an eight-year agreement in 2020, but the WNBPA voted last eyar to opt out of the agreement early.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Inside, the wasp provisions its offspring with paralyzed spiders or insects.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Enabling Zero Trust authentication, access and authorization for agents requires rethinking how identity is modeled, provisioned and governed across the full life cycle.
    Eric Olden, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The story of the two stars rooming together made headlines back in 2013 when the reality star appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike actual candles, flameless candles can be handled and easily transported from room to room without running the risk of burning your hands or fingers.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In Idaho, a 55-year-old earning about $63,000 per year will see annual premium costs rise by an average of nearly $4,000, according to the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan progressive policy institute.
    Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 7 Oct. 2025
  • There are economic considerations including freight costs, the cargo transported and how quickly it’s needed, said Klaus Dodds, a geopolitical analyst and senior research fellow at RAND Europe, a research institute.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Board.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/board. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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