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
This idea never actually got broached with Bush directly, but there was a a feeler put out to his staff to see what they thought about it, and there was not a lot of interest.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2021
He is at once a just-the-facts lawman and a prodigious feeler of feelings, introspective about the size of his ego and incapable of suppressing it entirely.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2019
The wasp still clung with one black feeler to the edge of the pew.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
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
