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board

[bawrd] / bɔrd /
NOUN
piece of wood
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VERB
provide food and sleeping quarters
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STRONGEST
WEAK


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David Kaefer, previously head of audiobooks and music at Spotify, will join a new Podium board, and Podium’s existing management team will remain in place.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

In a bid to ramp up its content, 'The Overlap' is believed to have targeted national newspaper journalists to come on board and cover United.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

Much of Novo’s board resigned last fall, and influential leaders like Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, who led development of semaglutide, have since stepped down.

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

And as I said in my op-ed and on television, put an editorial board together.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

Half the town board was there already, yowling like a bunch of soggy cats.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Earlier this month, First Minister John Swinney announced plans to cut the number of health boards in Scotland from 14 to 2.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

Polyethylene is widely used in products such as shopping bags and white plastic cutting boards, and large amounts of it ultimately end up as waste.

From Science Daily Sep. 21, 2026

Starting with ADM in 1991, Howie Buffett has served on numerous boards across corporate America—some with Berkshire Hathaway ties.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Given that clemency boards often look more favorably on applicants who acknowledge their wrongdoing and express remorse, I asked if he’d been tempted to confess.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

All these detectives and evidence and pictures pinned to bulletin boards?

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

Bundled and boarded up, the lantern inched across the parking lot on the back of a flatbed truck that climbed a ring road steep enough to cause concern.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2026

Police said they believe she then boarded a bus to nearby Altrincham at about 13:50 BST, but it is not known where she got off.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Coast Guard that included Federal Bureau of Investigation agents boarded the two tankers in August after they arrived in the Gulf of Mexico, the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

The ferry's manifest listed 134 crew and passengers, but two had not boarded, according to the coast guard.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

After the last of the wounded were transported in, the commanding officer saluted Dr. Han, and then with one last bow, he and all his men boarded the trucks and drove off again.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

The school is owned by Milton Academy, an elite Massachusetts boarding and day school.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Randall was removed from his role as chaplain at the fee-paying boarding school and reported to the government counter-terrorism watchdog Prevent.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

In the eighth grade, Elsesser accepted a full scholarship to an elite boarding school in East Hampton, N.Y.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

The boarding becomes more frantic as the window of opportunity shrinks.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

After boarding the shuttle to town, I went to my favorite spot in the back to catch some shuteye.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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