signboards

noun

plural of signboard
as in signs

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  1. signs
  2. billboards
  3. placards
  4. posters
Noun
  • The Habitable Worlds Observatory would be the first designed to photograph Earth-like planets — and even search for chemical signs of life within the atmospheres of those planets.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
  • There are signs that Democratic voters, especially, are looking for change, and some young voters argue older politicians can’t truly understand a world transformed by artificial intelligence, rising housing costs and student debt.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of signs
Noun
  • Screens have invaded our taxis, our billboards, our children’s toys, our very refrigerators.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Building affordable housing at scale means politicians need to break up with wealthy special interests like the construction accident lawyers who plaster the city and MTA buses with billboards and ads.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of billboards
Noun
  • There are silhouettes of demonstrators holding placards, and the placards are perfectly blank.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Meter-exempt placards allow people to park in handicap spaces in parking lots, and also exempt their holders from parking meter fees and time limitations, unless parking is limited to 30 minutes or less.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of placards
Noun
  • The Department of Homeland Security and ICE, the immigration and customs agency, have borrowed from video games in their recruitment posters and social-media campaigns.
    — Susan Page, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • In the Dash film and across the Prada show, Cao boldly addresses a critical quandary (one that is underlined by her pairing of romantic and pastoral imagery with posters that once promoted Mao- and Reform-era agricultural mechanization initiatives).
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of posters
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