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PBS

American  
  1. Public Broadcasting Service: a network of noncommercial television stations devoted to educational and other quality programming and funded by members' contributions, government allocations, and grants from private industry.


PBS British  

abbreviation

  1. Public Broadcasting Service

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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While watching “For Want of a Horse,” I recalled a program on PBS called “My Wild Affair” that wasn’t about zoophilia but about the problematic nature of human bonds with untamed animals.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

His source, he said, was a 1994 PBS documentary called Jihad in America.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

Speaking in a Nature on PBS documentary, Sir David Attenborough spoke of a huge ape that existed between six and five million years ago, the gigantopithecus.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

PBS and its Lakeland, Minn., member station also sued in May.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The games would also be broadcast on many PBS stations, the Book Network cable channel, and NPR.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein