placards 1 of 2

noun

plural of placard
as in posters
a sheet bearing an announcement for posting in a public place a placard announcing a campaign rally at the downtown plaza

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placards

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verb

present tense third-person singular of placard
1
as in posts
to affix (as a notice) to or on a suitable place placarded the poster about the upcoming play to the bulletin board

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2
as in announces
to make known openly or publicly placarded the news about the planned construction project all over the neighborhood

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Recent Examples of placards
Noun
Meter-exempt placards allow people to park in handicap spaces in parking lots, and also exempt their holders from parking meter fees and time limitations, unless parking is limited to 30 minutes or less. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026 Some protesters march in Spider-Man masks and Batman costumes, carrying tongue-in-cheek placards. — ABC News, 25 July 2026 Dolce Caffe and Beach Hut Deli were reinspected and passed with green placards. — Ruyuan Li. Summary Produced By Ai Assistance, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026 Opposition lawmakers held placards and shouted slogans seeking Pradhan’s resignation outside the Parliament building and then disrupted proceedings inside, forcing the chambers to be repeatedly suspended. — Reuters, NBC news, 23 July 2026 Protesters have carried inflatable flamingos and placards with drawings. — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026 Those protests stretched into their fifth consecutive day on Monday, with demonstrators holding placards and waving flags as part of a push for Zelenskyy to reinstate Fedorov and dismiss Syrskyi. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 22 July 2026 At Ole Miss, the school rolled out its Heisman campaign featuring Chambliss and Kewan Lacey on mock-ups of political placards around town. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 22 July 2026 Aside from some placards with slogans for her party, there was no indication of who the new occupant was. — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for placards
  1. posters
  2. posts
  3. announces
  4. billboards
  5. publishes
  6. signs
  7. proclaims
  8. declares
Noun
  • Dolly Parton’s image appeared on cake mix boxes, film posters, magazine covers, and paintings.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • College move-in used to mean twin XL sheets, a shower caddy, and maybe a few posters taped to a cinder-block wall.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of posters
Verb
  • Footage obtained by Airline Videos, a website that posts plane-spotting footage, shows a DHL jetliner touching down on the runway and, seconds later, white smoke emitting from the aircraft’s rear tires.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Under the jerseys, Lee, 40, humbly posts a small University of Missouri Athletics Hall of Fame plaque.
    — PJ Green August 27, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of posts
Verb
  • Gary announces debris removal plans The city of Gary announced Wednesday that it’s partnered with contractors and residents to launch storm recovery and debris removal operations.
    — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Every few weeks, another headline announces that artificial intelligence has matched a doctor, beaten a doctor, or is finally ready to become one.
    — Arya Rao, STAT, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of announces
Noun
  • Screens have invaded our taxis, our billboards, our children’s toys, our very refrigerators.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Building affordable housing at scale means politicians need to break up with wealthy special interests like the construction accident lawyers who plaster the city and MTA buses with billboards and ads.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of billboards
Verb
  • The federal health insurance program for Americans 65 and older publishes standardized prices, and that has become a benchmark for Indiana and other states trying to control health costs.
    — Alex Olgin, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Florida already collects substantial IDEA data, monitors districts and publishes dispute-resolution resources.
    — Deborah Esther Brooks, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of publishes
Noun
  • The Habitable Worlds Observatory would be the first designed to photograph Earth-like planets — and even search for chemical signs of life within the atmospheres of those planets.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
  • There are signs that Democratic voters, especially, are looking for change, and some young voters argue older politicians can’t truly understand a world transformed by artificial intelligence, rising housing costs and student debt.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of signs
Verb
  • Standing before her guards, the increasingly dictatorial ruler proclaims herself as the Chosen One to the people of King's Landing.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Across 45 recipes — each its own kind of breadcrumb-naming treatise — the duo proclaims how versatile the kitchen staple both is and can be.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 8 June 2026
Definition of proclaims
Verb
  • Below that line, oil can only be legally released if the President formally declares a severe domestic or international energy supply emergency.
    — Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The Counter View On GitHub Before anyone declares a changing of the guard, look at what the adoption data will show over the next two quarters.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of declares

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“Placards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placards. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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