corkboard
Americannoun
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an insulating material made of compressed cork, used in building, for industrial purposes, etc.
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a bulletin board made of this material.
noun
Etymology
Origin of corkboard
Example Sentences
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“Queerness is no crime, Transness is no crime,” read a Post-it note attached to the brown corkboard.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
The Wi-Fi password, posted on a corkboard in the lobby next to Christmas photos from the club’s “incarcerated homies,” is “BlackLiberation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
The walls and ceiling are bare unpainted wood, and there is nothing in the shed but my desk, a filing cabinet, two little bookshelves, an air-conditioner, and, of course, nailed to one wall, a corkboard.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
In a kitchen or children’s playroom, Patton suggests using stick-on corkboard tiles to create places to pin up family photos, Christmas cards or children’s artwork.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022
A sign to the left read main office, and a corkboard next to it listed the graduating seniors’ college destinations: Yale, Penn, Harvard, Brown, Williams, Princeton, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, Stanford.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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