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
As a mentor and sounding board, Faulk could be a coup for CU’s tailbacks.
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Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2025
To shift this, instead of taking over, become a supportive sounding board.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
As a result, Mayo was left without an experienced sounding board during the more difficult days of the season.
—Chad Graff, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
All Brentwood football coach Jake Ford can do is offer support and be a sounding board as players who lost homes in the Palisades fire try to deal with the life-changing event.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
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Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2025
To shift this, instead of taking over, become a supportive sounding board.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
As a result, Mayo was left without an experienced sounding board during the more difficult days of the season.
—Chad Graff, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
All Brentwood football coach Jake Ford can do is offer support and be a sounding board as players who lost homes in the Palisades fire try to deal with the life-changing event.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sounding board
Noun
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The Athletic’s experts Luke Smith (from Shanghai) and Madeline Coleman break down the season’s second race.—
Luke Smith,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
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Unlike MoE, where ‘experts’ emerge without explicit specialization, our method dynamically refines representations with true task-specific expertise.—
Rob Toews,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Both Trump and Elon Musk, his billionaire adviser, have made inflated claims about fraud in the system.—
Ashley Lopez,
NPR,
22 Mar. 2025
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Earlier in the day, President Trump rejected reports that adviser Elon Musk would be briefed on how the United States would fight a hypothetical war with China.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Success Factors Beyond School Prestige College counselors emphasize that student success correlates more strongly with campus engagement, mentorship relationships, and academic interests than with institutional prestige.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Driving Pa Beck back to his mansion, Reacher takes an odd swerve into family counselor mode, telling the gunrunner that his son deserves to know that the reason he’s been made to suffer these last five years is because, welp, his old man is a gunrunner.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Sounding board.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sounding%20board. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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