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as in organizations
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 tables
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 feeds
to provide food or meals for
housed and boarded many foster children over the years
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as in houses
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 boards
Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
That’s why Sullivan recommends using two separate cutting boards.
—Audrey Bruno, SELF, 10 Sep. 2025
Yet despite these risks, most Fortune 500 boards lack the operational technology expertise needed to provide adequate oversight.
—Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Oversight boards would be allowed to review records only in closed session and would be barred from releasing certain details to the public.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
Without this advance funding from the county, both election boards may lack the money needed to pay for an election up front, Ealom said.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
That’s why Sullivan recommends using two separate cutting boards.
—Audrey Bruno, SELF, 10 Sep. 2025
Yet despite these risks, most Fortune 500 boards lack the operational technology expertise needed to provide adequate oversight.
—Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Oversight boards would be allowed to review records only in closed session and would be barred from releasing certain details to the public.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
Meanwhile, the Baroness's remaining lover, Rudy, manages to get the attention of a passing boat, boards a life raft, and leaves the island behind.
—EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boards
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The United States has suspended some funding for its flagship AIDS relief program, according to international organizations and members of Congress who warn the cuts are already hurting patients and halting critical projects globally.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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According to Anthropic, the company behind Claude, a hacker used its artificial intelligence chatbot to research, hack, and extort at least 17 organizations.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Wood Keep baking soda away from any wood surface, including wood floors, wooden coffee or dining tables, and cutting boards.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
9 Sep. 2025
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The main building is an open concept dining pavilion with tables available indoors and outdoors.—
Alissa Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Hospitals can store medical records, lab results, imaging scans, and real time feeds from bedside monitors in a single hub.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Whether users wanted to see them or not, videos of horrific moments have been flooding social media feeds over the past week.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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The first floor houses a dining room, workshop, and two-car garage.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
10 Sep. 2025
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Authorities said the suspect had approached the outside of the Annunciation Catholic Church, which also houses a school, and fired inside — killing two children and injuring more than a dozen others.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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The data set is hosted on a website of the European research institutions that created it.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
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Powered by advanced technology and human creativity, Tala is reinventing financial infrastructure to solve what legacy institutions can’t or won’t, in order to unlock global economic progress.—
Jack McCullough,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The asylum application asked whether Soliman had belonged to political parties or other associations in his home country.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Researchers believe that these past associations may be attributable to confounding.—
Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
9 Sep. 2025
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In Ukraine, Soviet authorities under his control pressured writers, actors, directors, producers and artists, and criticized and attacked institutes of Ukrainian history and Ukrainian literature, creative unions and newspaper and magazine editorial offices.—
Yegor Mostovshikov,
The Dial,
9 Sep. 2025
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Research institutes in Japan, China, and Europe have launched their own greenhouse gas-monitoring satellites.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
6 Sep. 2025
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Our conversation revealed how commercial space, AI, and medicine are converging in ways that will open entirely new opportunities for businesses and societies.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Each of these commitments comes nestled in a bramble of thorny questions that societies have been debating for the last, let’s round it off at, 250 years.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Boards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boards. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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