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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 boards
Mentors in and out of your company can be invaluable sounding boards.
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Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sounding boards
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Ahead of the latest shutdown deadline, OMB circulated guidance telling agencies to submit workforce reduction strategies, a move unions and legal experts warn is a blueprint for mass layoffs during a funding lapse.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Some experts liken it to trying to spot a snowball in a snowstorm.—
Dr. Megha Gupta,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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Hundreds of generals and admirals — senior commanders of the one-star rank or higher and their top advisers — have been summoned by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from all over the world to the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, with little notice.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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The order applied to senior commanders of the one-star rank or higher, and their top advisers.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
28 Sep. 2025
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Encourage professional support Reinforce that mental health care is available through doctors, counselors or hotlines.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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At least 27 campers and counselors from the all-girls summer camp were killed along the Guadalupe River when calamitous flash floods swept through the area on July 4.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Sounding boards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sounding%20boards. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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