put out a feeler
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Last year, the British dance musician known as Fred Again.. put out a feeler to the Nashville-based alt-rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise about a possible collaboration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
But before the studio met with any of them it put out a feeler to Netflix, thinking that fast-growing service might bid for the rights to repeat the show after a television premiere.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2013
Once, his brash younger brother, Rengan, put out a feeler for inside information to a friend from Stanford’s business school who had become Kumar’s protégé at McKinsey.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2011
At 12:30 p.m., the nominee put out a feeler to Mondale.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few days later Gustavus put out a feeler to his Cabinet in the south of Sweden.
From The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa by Paul Barron Watson
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