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Recent Examples of feeler
Bloomberg was first to report the feelers from Legendary.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 July 2025
After putting out feelers for Coherix Cares around six months ago, within the last month the company landed a major Japanese automaker in the United States to adopt the program last month for powertrain assembly lines.
—Ed Garsten, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
One option would be to throw out feelers to regional mediators and perhaps the United States directly that Iran wants to deescalate and will stop firing missiles toward Israel if the Israelis end bombing operations.
—Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 20 June 2025
Putnam sent out feelers to find candidates for such a heroine, who merely had to be the first female Atlantic passenger to get famous.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 25 May 2025
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 July 2025
After putting out feelers for Coherix Cares around six months ago, within the last month the company landed a major Japanese automaker in the United States to adopt the program last month for powertrain assembly lines.
—Ed Garsten, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
One option would be to throw out feelers to regional mediators and perhaps the United States directly that Iran wants to deescalate and will stop firing missiles toward Israel if the Israelis end bombing operations.
—Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 20 June 2025
Putnam sent out feelers to find candidates for such a heroine, who merely had to be the first female Atlantic passenger to get famous.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feeler
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By modeling this signal across each galaxy, the team measured how fast the gas was moving and how chaotic its motion was.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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So a common approach is to use a computer to simulate the fluid’s motion and get an approximate sense of the conditions that seem to produce a blowup.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
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More clues to that conclusion are likely to appear in the coming week, when coach Kevin O’Connell and general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah meet with the media and respond to what figures to be a bevy of McCarthy-centric queries.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
12 Jan. 2026
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The use of Google’s Gemini models could help Siri handle more complex queries and maintain context during conversations.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Monday’s decision was the result of more than a year and a half of offers and counteroffers from state and local officials on both sides of the state line, a process that would outlast White’s truncated second term as county executive.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
24 Dec. 2025
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The mayor met on Monday afternoon with several members of the coalition opposed to his budget plan on Monday to discuss their latest counteroffer.—
Chris Tye,
CBS News,
15 Dec. 2025
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Olathe has confirmed that the City Council will hold a public hearing and vote on an ordinance that would pledge all local incremental general sales tax within the STAR bond project area to pay off stadium debt.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
10 Jan. 2026
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Jessica Ranucci, a lawyer in the New York Attorney General’s office, said in the Friday hearing, which was conducted by telephone, that at least four of the states had already had money delayed after requesting it.—
Geoff Mulvihill,
Twin Cities,
10 Jan. 2026
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Despite his positive words about the regime, which is practically unchanged save Maduro’s absence, in the last few days Trump has made overtures to María Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader who was barred from running in Venezuela’s 2024 general election.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
11 Jan. 2026
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The letter, Mandal said, was a bold overture, given that the city attorney and other key players in the department’s oversight were not consulted beforehand.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Join our live chats or ask a question in advance.—
Karen Tumulty,
Washington Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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Business leaders, of course, have their own interests and shareholders to serve, but Democrats can still protect the public interest while giving CEOs a seat at the table to reach pragmatic answers to difficult questions like these.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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Have a suggestion for a future story?—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
10 Jan. 2026
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Other more outlandish suggestions have included Nicola Mendelsohn, the head of Meta’s global business group and a doyen of British business, and Tristram Hunt, a former broadcast journalist and Labour Party politician who now runs the Victoria & Albert Museum.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
9 Jan. 2026
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Blood and platelet donors can save time at their next donation by using RapidPass® to complete their pre-donation reading and health history questionnaire online, on the day of their donation, before arriving at the blood drive.—
Janay Reece,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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After the questionnaire, the study volunteers recorded nightly reports on their smartphone use and overall daily moods.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Feeler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feeler. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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