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Recent Examples of feeler
Bloomberg was first to report the feelers from Legendary.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 July 2025
After putting out feelers for Coherix Cares around six months ago, within the last month the company landed a major Japanese automaker in the United States to adopt the program last month for powertrain assembly lines.
—Ed Garsten, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
One option would be to throw out feelers to regional mediators and perhaps the United States directly that Iran wants to deescalate and will stop firing missiles toward Israel if the Israelis end bombing operations.
—Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 20 June 2025
Putnam sent out feelers to find candidates for such a heroine, who merely had to be the first female Atlantic passenger to get famous.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 25 May 2025
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By modeling this signal across each galaxy, the team measured how fast the gas was moving and how chaotic its motion was.—
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So a common approach is to use a computer to simulate the fluid’s motion and get an approximate sense of the conditions that seem to produce a blowup.—
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Packer suspected that these queries were connected to reporting from The Information in August that cited sources claiming OpenAI was scraping Google search results to power ChatGPT responses.—
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For weeks, the department has ignored press queries about complaints like these.—
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Monday’s decision was the result of more than a year and a half of offers and counteroffers from state and local officials on both sides of the state line, a process that would outlast White’s truncated second term as county executive.—
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The mayor met on Monday afternoon with several members of the coalition opposed to his budget plan on Monday to discuss their latest counteroffer.—
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Olathe has confirmed that the City Council will hold a public hearing and vote on an ordinance that would pledge all local incremental general sales tax within the STAR bond project area to pay off stadium debt.—
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Jessica Ranucci, a lawyer in the New York Attorney General’s office, said in the Friday hearing, which was conducted by telephone, that at least four of the states had already had money delayed after requesting it.—
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Despite his positive words about the regime, which is practically unchanged save Maduro’s absence, in the last few days Trump has made overtures to María Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader who was barred from running in Venezuela’s 2024 general election.—
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The letter, Mandal said, was a bold overture, given that the city attorney and other key players in the department’s oversight were not consulted beforehand.—
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After that day, when I was given the book which promised to answer all of my bloody questions—my long-suffering American Girl doll went into the closet.—
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Yes, potential excuses exist, such as the Tigers’ switch to Daniels, a senior Stanford transfer whose tremendous performance (353 yards passing and two touchdowns, 89 yards rushing and two touchdowns) demands the question of why Freeze didn’t turn the offense over to him weeks ago.—
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Have a suggestion for a future story?—
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Other more outlandish suggestions have included Nicola Mendelsohn, the head of Meta’s global business group and a doyen of British business, and Tristram Hunt, a former broadcast journalist and Labour Party politician who now runs the Victoria & Albert Museum.—
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Not all subjects completed the comfort questionnaire, so in the end there was data from 527 runners.—
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Methodologically, the piece leans on a few entry points (one large Discord server; a prominent guide, by the username Gooncultist; a questionnaire) and in doing so, overweights the gooning scene’s performative edge.—
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“Feeler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feeler. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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