PBS

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.

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A bet is synonymous with a wager, but what does it mean in New York?

Often it means something is impossible.

It’s another way to agree with someone.

It serves as an apology.

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Words nearby PBS

PBB, PBG, PBI, PBJ, p-book, PBS, PBX, pc, PCB, PCC, PC card

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Example sentences from the Web for PBS

Cookie Monster has always been one of the most beloved features of that PBS childhood staple, Sesame Street.
Cookie Monster Stars in Harry Potter Parody|Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
PBS ran a program featuring Sommers and Paglia called “Has feminism gone too far?”
Carol Shields’s Tale Of Secondhand Life|Nathaniel Rich|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Tavis Smiley, the PBS talk show host and close friend to Cornel West, often credits West with having a “useable intellect.”
Cornel West’s Disappointing Decline|David Masciotra|October 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Smiley is a PBS talk show host who has written several previous books about the African-American experience.
Tavis Smiley Humanely Chronicles MLK’s Sad Last Year|Scott Porch|October 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Ken Burns practically has a monopoly on televised public history and especially the history broadcast by PBS.
Ken Burns’s ‘Roosevelts’ Fine But Flawed|Harvey J. Kaye|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for PBS

PBS

abbreviation for

US 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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