as in expert
a person or group with whom you discuss ideas to see if the ideas are good
My friend is my sounding board for new ideas.
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Recent Examples of sounding board
Shai was a sounding board, giving advice on how battles are different, how opposing players are built differently and the little things that matter on the ice.
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Joe Smith, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Mentors in and out of your company can be invaluable sounding boards.
—Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Treat it as a sounding board for album names, tour titles and hook ideas… the stuff that would make your spouse or best friend groan.
—Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
So, just being there as a creative sounding board is my main job.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 23 Aug. 2025
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Joe Smith, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Mentors in and out of your company can be invaluable sounding boards.
—Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Treat it as a sounding board for album names, tour titles and hook ideas… the stuff that would make your spouse or best friend groan.
—Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
So, just being there as a creative sounding board is my main job.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sounding board
Noun
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Another factor may be Japan’s demographic shift, experts say.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Philip Mann, an aviation expert and former Federal Aviation Administration training manager, said smaller airports not on the list could also see delays and cancelations.—
Laura Layden,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Schlegel, a travel adviser from Arlington, Virginia, has told clients to not panic, to monitor their flights and to arrive at the airport early.—
JOSH FUNK,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
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Just ahead of kickoff, ESPN's Jordan Reid reported that New York Jets GM Darren Mougey and senior football advisor, Rick Spielman, are both in attendance for the Indiana-Penn State matchup.—
Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Having no cool aunt of my own and no elder sisters, just teenage babysitters and camp counselors (each with their own unique but tenuous grasp on anatomy and reproductive science), the book felt warm, inviting, and—perhaps most important to my terrified, bleeding, self—safe.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Carol, who now works as a counselor after a career shift in her fifties, isn’t interested in trying to gloss up the factors that led to her creatively brilliant and warmhearted son’s death.—
Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Those specialists listen to callers’ needs and provide them with referrals to health and social service providers near them that may be able to help.—
Matthew W. Kreuter,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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The science specialist university, together with Jabra, studied how voice technology will impact the future of work, and the scientists predicted that by 2028, voice AI will become the default way of working.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Sounding board.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sounding%20board. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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