feeler
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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
Mr. Whitehouse’s staff recently met with Exxon lobbyists, but the senator said, “The meeting was more just an exploratory feeler to see about further conversations.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2016
But before the studio met with any of them it put out a feeler to Netflix, thinking that fast-growing service might bid for the rights to repeat the show after a television premiere.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2013
Each one is angry at the other for pulling his feeler off.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
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
Mr Walker said the council is "putting all of its feelers out" to "try and raise the money it can to stand a chance at bidding".
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
I’ve been putting out feelers and things like that.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025
They were awake, for the bird’s eyes were bright and the moth’s feelers waved languidly, but they weren’t animated, as she would have expected them to be.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
