Thesaurus results for PASTEBOARD

pasteboard

noun

ˈpās(t)-ˌbȯrd

Definition of pasteboard

as in ticket

a small sheet of plastic, paper, or paperboard showing that the bearer has a claim to something (as admittance) those pasteboards I got from a scalper cost me four times their face value

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Recent Examples of pasteboard It is filled with antiques from the earliest period when the family of Francis Watlington — a sea captain, harbor master and state legislator — resided here, including a game table set with 19th century pasteboard playing cards. — Elaine Glusac, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024 Her three magnificent novels about the life and times of Thomas Cromwell—Henry VIII’s fixer-in-chief, who oversaw England’s rupture with the Church of Rome—stripped the robes of cliché and hindsight from one of history’s pasteboard ogres. — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022 As MacRumors reminds us, Apple introduced a privacy feature in iOS 16 which forces apps to ask permission before accessing your pasteboard to paste content from other apps. — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 19 Sep. 2022 In all, the Oroville Lake Marinas company removed 130 houseboats; floating recreation palaces such as the Monte-Carol and La Bella Vita now sit in a parking lot on stacks of pasteboard props. — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 19 June 2021 Tickets are all mobile — no pasteboard stubs to keep for the scrapbook anymore. — Madalyn Mendoza, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Mar. 2021 If theme parks, with their pasteboard main streets, reek of a bland, safe, homogenized, white bread America, the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic. — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2020 The thin strips of pasteboard nailed to the walls was a ramshackle form of insulation, and textbook tinder. — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2017

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An airline that adjusts ticket prices as departures approach is using dynamic pricing.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
While the promotion promises access to a future game, not every remaining ticket holder is necessarily guaranteed their preferred World Series matchup.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026

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The top 10 individual donors to American Priorities, cutting six-figure checks, are all Muslim.

— Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
As Tripp Lite grew, Seid wrote checks to the Republican National Committee, ProPublica reported, and a longtime adviser described him as the Heartland Institute’s major patron, a Chicago-area think tank that disputes mainstream climate science.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

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