clipboard
noun
clip·board
ˈklip-ˌbȯrd 
1
: a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers
2
: a section of computer memory that temporarily stores data (such as text or a graphics image) especially to facilitate its movement or duplication
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Guards now stand sentry with a clipboard to block almost everyone from getting inside.
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Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
On a grassy hillside nestled into a live oak woodland ecosystem in the San Francisco Bay Area, a group of elementary students armed with clipboards huddle around a cluster of native vegetation, sketching its craggy form and jotting down observations.
—Maya Chawla, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2024
Before 2020, whiteboards, sticky notes and interns with clipboards dominated the halls of Congress.
—Lorelei Kelly, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
Back then, some 15 to 20 days after a ceasefire, a Hezbollah agent with a clipboard arrived to survey damage, Shoumar, 55, recalls.
—Lauren Frayer, NPR, 13 Dec. 2024
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Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
On a grassy hillside nestled into a live oak woodland ecosystem in the San Francisco Bay Area, a group of elementary students armed with clipboards huddle around a cluster of native vegetation, sketching its craggy form and jotting down observations.
—Maya Chawla, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2024
Before 2020, whiteboards, sticky notes and interns with clipboards dominated the halls of Congress.
—Lorelei Kelly, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
Back then, some 15 to 20 days after a ceasefire, a Hezbollah agent with a clipboard arrived to survey damage, Shoumar, 55, recalls.
—Lauren Frayer, NPR, 13 Dec. 2024
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clipboard
noun
clip·board
ˈklip-ˌbō(ə)rd
-ˌbȯ(ə)rd
1
: a small board with a clip at the top for holding papers
2
: a part of computer memory used to store data temporarily
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