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feelers

noun

plural of feeler
1
as in overtures

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2
as in queries

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for feelers
  1. overtures
  2. queries
  3. motions
  4. hearings
  5. proposals
  6. questions
  7. suggestions
  8. questionnaires
Noun
  • They’re also required to report any such overtures to the league.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Tottenham’s Lucas Bergvall and Archie Gray, Stuttgart’s Angelo Stiller, Brighton’s Carlos Belaba, Botafogo’s Danilo and Eintracht Frankfurt’s Hugo Larsson were among them, while overtures were made regarding Victor Froholdt’s availability at Porto.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of overtures
Noun
  • Far fewer teams can quantify how autosuggest modifiers alter user behavior, how star-rating variance suppresses click-through rates or how ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and other AI platforms characterize their brand in response to real user queries.
    — Paul M. Wilson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Choosing IndieWire as a preferred source ensures that Google will prioritize IndieWire stories in all of your queries, including traditional searches, Discover, and AI Overviews.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of queries
Noun
  • Delivery mechanisms, pricing models and go-to-market motions are almost always tactics.
    — Amir Wain, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • But Da Corte and Onli went several steps beyond the de rigueur motions of creating a hit show.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of motions
Noun
  • Cramer leads a team of graduate students who attend public hearings and community group meetings and who conduct one-on-one interviews with people about data centers.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The initial trial hearings officially begin on Monday but the opening statements from the prosecution are not expected until later in the week.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of hearings
Noun
  • So there’s not that much to happen in the last two-thirds of the drama than for your ribs to be constantly nudged with the idea of how easily the most respectable citizens among us will give in to modest proposals and, indeed, murder.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Holding procedural votes on the Husted and Collins proposals would also eat up floor time requiring them to remain in session beyond this week.
    — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of proposals
Noun
  • Modern crypto-agility also requires organizations to answer operational questions in near-real time.
    — Evgeny Gervis, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Yet the book does not ask questions about education as a contested sociopolitical institution.
    — Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of questions
Noun
  • According to Hollywood insider Rob Shuter, however, Jennifer Aniston’s friends are pushing back against suggestions that her Curtis is using her fame to sell his new book.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 21 Sep. 2026
  • There have been multiple proposals and suggestions in response to the high fuel prices during spring and summer 2026 to suspend federal and state diesel and gas taxes.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of suggestions
Noun
  • Only a little more than half the websites had a question about eating disorders — which GLP-1 drugs can induce or worsen — on their intake questionnaires, the researchers found.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • One day in August, more than a dozen such questionnaires were taken offline just hours after being visited.
    — Daniel Gilbert, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of questionnaires
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“Feelers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feelers. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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