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  • noun Alternative form of sounding board.

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Examples

  • He should protect his sources, but there's no way he should become a soundingboard for Republican operatives.

    Reuters Lets Anonymous McCain Aide Tie Obama To Pregnancy Rumors 2009

  • Technorati Tags: kimcofino stevemadsen jomcleay brandtschneider chrissyhellyer vickidavis horizonproject_soundingboard horizonproject2008 horizonproject_expertadvisors horizonproject soundingboard peerreview

    Wanted! Experts and Sounding Board Participants Julie Lindsay 2008

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    Archive 2008-04-01 Julie Lindsay 2008

  • At the same time, I believe my introverted nature allowed them to treat me as their soundingboard, without realizing it.

    The Brotherhood of Man Kimani Kinyua 2006

  • If you stand on its summit and look at these two f-shaped spout-holes, you would take the whole head for an enormous bass viol, and these spiracles, the apertures in its soundingboard.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • If you stand on its summit and look at these two f-shaped spout-holes, you would take the whole head for an enormous bass viol, and these spiracles, the apertures in its soundingboard.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • a soundingboard devised for the sole purpose of throwing back the mellifluous voices of native orators.

    A Hoosier Chronicle Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • Her friend Carolyn Bartholomew, a sensible soundingboard throughout Diana’s adult life, saw how that fundamental issue had clouded her character.

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • Her friend Carolyn Bartholomew, a sensible soundingboard throughout Diana’s adult life, saw how that fundamental issue had clouded her character.

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

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