the boards

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Dancer Joanna Banks first stepped on stage in Northern Ireland in 1958 as a teenager with the Royal Ballet, now 86 years old she is back on the boards.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

She was chief medical officer at UnitedHealthcare and currently serves on the boards of Children’s Minnesota hospital and the medical-device company Nuwellis.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

His longstanding enthusiasm for high-performance engineering led him to serve on the boards of Ducati and Lamborghini.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The deal has been approved by the boards of both companies and is expected to close within the next 90 days.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

We went into emergency procedure—Mami and I slipped into the bathroom closets and back into the crawl space—one of the boards is loose and it made a terrible Whack!!! sound—scared us half to death!

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez