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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Our job as advisers is to help clients address problems with effective solutions, be a sounding board, and point out when their emotions may be getting the best of them.
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Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2024
Lean On Key Stakeholders For Advice Use key stakeholders, the community and your constituents as sounding boards.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Stylist Cary Robinson—her sounding board for all things chic, who also happens to be her mom—nodded in agreement.
—Freya Drohan, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
And in that time since, the actor says his father, 54, has been a sounding board for him, offering advice as needed on various roles or how to act on set.
—Stacy Lambe, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2024
Lean On Key Stakeholders For Advice Use key stakeholders, the community and your constituents as sounding boards.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Stylist Cary Robinson—her sounding board for all things chic, who also happens to be her mom—nodded in agreement.
—Freya Drohan, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
And in that time since, the actor says his father, 54, has been a sounding board for him, offering advice as needed on various roles or how to act on set.
—Stacy Lambe, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sounding board
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Shelly Miller, the positive parenting expert behind The Teacher Momma, cosigns the idea that yelling is common among parents today.Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
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Seattle is seeing a rise in deliveries that's reshaping urban life, with neighborhoods like SODO, South Lake Union, and Belltown experiencing some of the highest activity, traffic experts say.Christine Clarridge, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
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David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Vice President Harris’s campaign, suggested Monday that the Democratic nominee could win all seven swing states.Tara Suter, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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Signatories included former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger, Olivia Troye, a former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, and William Webster, former director of both the CIA and FBI.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Bishop said the organization has been connecting with school counselors in the area and tabling at events to get the word out about its mission.Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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Less than two years later, the new board has implemented policies banning certain instruction, diminishing school counselors’ responsibilities, gutting behavioral supports and hardening student discipline.Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Sounding board.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sounding%20board. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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