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
Acting as both producer and sounding board, Cook helped assemble a sympathetic cast of collaborators drawn from the modern Americana and indie orbit.
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Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2026
Troy has been a wonderful sounding board from afar.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
Confidant, sounding board, friend.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
There is no loyal Horatio this time to serve as confidant or sounding board to our melancholy protagonist.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
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Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2026
Troy has been a wonderful sounding board from afar.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
Confidant, sounding board, friend.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
There is no loyal Horatio this time to serve as confidant or sounding board to our melancholy protagonist.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for sounding board
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sounding board
Noun
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Crime victims are at least as important as criminals; unfortunately, their voices are small compared to the phalanx of behavioral experts who believe the worst place for a person who’s committed a crime is prison.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
20 May 2026
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Criminal charges against school officials after a school shooting are quite rare, experts say.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
Noun
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Patrick Gaspard, a Mamdani adviser, served as a liaison between the campaign and Jeffries.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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But as any financial advisor would warn, each decade of delay reduces the amount of money available at retirement by roughly half.—
Mary Moreland,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
Noun
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Press 2 to speak to a counselor in Spanish.—
Rhitu Chatterjee,
NPR,
17 May 2026
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Rubin will play Louise Donnadieu, a working-class counselor at Camp Emerson whose life is upended when one of her young campers, Barbara, goes missing.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
Noun
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This article was created by content specialists using various tools, including AI.—
Lauren Schuster,
Sacbee.com,
19 May 2026
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Python incentives and education specialist Robert Edman, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, demonstrates how to catch a python during an event promoting the Florida Python Challenge 2020 Python Bowl in 2019.—
Morgan Rynor,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
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