bulletin board
noun
1
: a board for posting notices (as at a school)
2
: a public electronic forum that allows users to post or read messages : message board
… a personal computer, a modem, and a telephone line are all you need to run your own bulletin board …—
John Seabrook
John SeabrookComputer bulletin board services offer up the glories of e-mail, the thought provocation of news-groups, the sharing of ideas implicit in public posting, and the interaction of real-time chats. The fabulous, wonderful, limitless world of communication is just waiting for you to log on.—M. Kadi
M. KadiExamples of bulletin board in a Sentence
Our teacher put our pictures up on the bulletin board.
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Requests are posted on a bulletin board, and the nuns relay them to the oblate community.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Many hotels and hostels, and often the local grocery store, still have bulletin boards with postings for local activities, like free yoga sessions or group hikes.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2024
In times of crisis — during the Black Lives Matter uprisings of 2020 or the ongoing bombardment of Gaza — Instagram Stories has become something of a bulletin board for resharing infographics and resources.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Jan. 2025
News articles highlighting lapses at the lab were pinned on a bulletin board outside his office.
—Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
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Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Many hotels and hostels, and often the local grocery store, still have bulletin boards with postings for local activities, like free yoga sessions or group hikes.
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2024
In times of crisis — during the Black Lives Matter uprisings of 2020 or the ongoing bombardment of Gaza — Instagram Stories has become something of a bulletin board for resharing infographics and resources.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Jan. 2025
News articles highlighting lapses at the lab were pinned on a bulletin board outside his office.
—Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Bulletin board.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bulletin%20board. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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