feeler
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“Putting out a feeler in a noncrisis situation to see what kind of reactions you get is a really valuable thing,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
Last year, the British dance musician known as Fred Again.. put out a feeler to the Nashville-based alt-rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise about a possible collaboration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
“It’s always so exciting when you see someone with such incredible talent and screen presence who then is also such a deep thinker and feeler as a person,” Lister-Jones said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
In comments caught on tape in the Oval Office, he called it “the most realistic, the most convincing, the most persuasive peace feeler I’ve had since I’ve been president.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2013
I pull off feeler from mine, and he pulls off feeler from his.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
It put out feelers, including to Aberdeen University's zoology department and museums.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
Finally, she’s put out feelers to those with private planes, even offering to provide a free solo concert in return for a flight to Wichita.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2025
The COP30 climate summit in Brazil in November will provide another opportunity to put the feelers out, ahead of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi in December.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
I’ve been putting out feelers and things like that.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025
My ‘long-horned’ relatives, the ones who have long curvy feelers coming out of their heads, make their music simply by rubbing the edges of their two top wings together.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
