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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feelers
  1. overtures
  2. queries
  3. motions
  4. hearings
  5. proposals
  6. questions
  7. suggestions
  8. questionnaires
Noun
  • 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
  • The United States had been looking for an interlocutor with Cuba and made overtures with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, grandson of former Cuban president Raúl Castro, according to an exclusive USA TODAY interview in July.
    — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of overtures
Noun
  • The difference today is that as AI continues to get smarter, consumers no longer have to narrow their queries to a few search terms.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Thanks for all the great queries, which, as usual, have been slightly modified for length and clarity.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of queries
Noun
  • The motions precede understanding as the lines perpetually reverse, halt, and cascade toward discovery—more scar, than solution.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • At first Tassie merely goes through the motions, turning up and pretty much dozing off her hangovers while her charges shoot her disapproving glances.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of motions
Noun
  • Barisone was entitled to regular hearings at which a judge would weigh the risk of releasing him.
    — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Spain’s immigration law requires that authorities open individual case files into family whereabouts and hold hearings on a child’s maturity, if necessary, before returning children.
    — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of hearings
Noun
  • Proposition 41, which is pitched as a government transparency measure requiring auditor approval for new tax proposals but would nullify the billionaire tax, carried 51% of voters in the poll, against 44% no and 5% undecided.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • That’s why the proposals floated by industry depend upon mutual collaboration and, to an extent, government regulation.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of proposals
Noun
  • And in addition to uncovering valuable data on the business itself, the audit can look into how AI answer engines appear to respond to questions about a category, an industry and competitors.
    — Michelle Mekky, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The bookshelf becomes a collective record of the times, ways of seeing, forms that flourished during particular eras, and also questions that persist across centuries.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of questions
Noun
  • Zidar and Zwick have some suggestions for how to change this.
    — John Lanchester, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Many suggestions have circulated about who could be the next 007 agent in the James Bond film franchise, and Pierce Brosnan has a new take on where the studio could go.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of suggestions
Noun
  • Rather, the risk is usually in how the information travels, for instance by email, spreadsheets or one-off questionnaires.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • To prepare, Galinskaya has clients fill out pre-meeting questionnaires, which are kept confidential, about their objectives and concerns.
    — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of questionnaires
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“Feelers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feelers. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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