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"sounding board" Definitions
  1. a person or group of people that you discuss your ideas with before you make them known or reach a decision
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He has also been a sounding board for young players.
"We want to be a sounding board," Mr. Hoffman said.
Anna is a sounding board on anything big or small.
How do you distinguish Sounding Board from everything else out there?
"I did definitely use them [as a sounding board]," she says.
Renee Karp became her daughter's sounding board for every story she wrote.
Which is serving on a board, being a sounding board for CEOs.
He needs support, a sounding board and, as a lifelong hotelier, guests.
This is where having a good financial advisor and sounding board is key.
So it's nice to have a sounding board at home that just understands.
So it's kind of nice to have this machine sounding board slash collaborator.
Like many celebrities, she became a sounding board for someone else's negative thoughts.
She becomes Kohei's sounding board for his fears of being a bad parent.
While her focus is logistics, she's often a safe sounding board for clients.
Alton. Lucas may be little more than Roy's buddy and sounding board, but
If you need a sounding board, find a trusted person outside the company.
I mean, who wouldn't want a cheerleader, sounding board, and proverbial door-opener?
They became close friends, and Mr. Johnson became a sounding board for Mr. Schultz.
She was a good sounding board and someone who gave me very sound advice.
Meanwhile, new mental health and coaching platforms are emerging like BetterUp and Sounding Board.
Over the years, this deferential circle of correspondents became his most important sounding board.
He uses each as a sounding board for his vanities, insecurities, delusions and fixations.
I also liked seeing the debuts of DEAD GIVEAWAY, DILLY DALLIES and SOUNDING BOARD.
For example, the board can serve as an initial sounding board for reporting quarterly results.
Claudia's about the only person who could've been the sounding board for his particular frustration.
Her site was an invaluable source of information, and she was a helpful sounding board.
" Burns characterized the Trump Tower session as a "sounding board meeting" where Trump "absolutely listened.
During Reagan's time in office, she never sought credit for her role as sounding board.
He had a rich and devoted marriage to his wife, Rachel, his partner and sounding board.
Hassell has a "Darah list" and often uses the millennial as a sounding board for ideas.
But I want to be available as a sounding board, for questions as well as problems.
He can continue to be a sounding board for Hillary, and he provides advice when asked.
Let the men hold the laundry basket, listen to the problems and be the sounding board.
I wish to thank Erik Agard for being a sounding board for all my silly questions.
Hogan, who has known Kudlow for decades, says he'll be a great sounding board on trade.
Social media, with its instant gratification and wide reach, becomes the perfect sounding board for disgruntled shoppers.
By spring 2016, Yiannopoulos had begun to use him as a sounding board, intellectual guide, and editor.
Pam MacKinnon directs the cast of two; Christopher Denham is Mr. Pacino's valiant sounding board (243010:241).
Pam MacKinnon directs the cast of two; Christopher Denham is Mr. Pacino's valiant sounding board (1043:1033).
Pam MacKinnon directs the cast of two; Christopher Denham is Mr. Pacino's valiant sounding board (2:00).
Plus, there was her online pal NY152, a comforting sounding board during a time of great change.
APRIL 16 He wears many hats in the White House: Press wrangler, private muscle and sounding board.
And just being able to use him as a sounding board some days does me some good.
" Ms. Childs uses the music, she said, "as a sounding board for all of the movement ideas.
Obviously I've always used him as a very strong sounding board, as well as my board of directors.
They made introductions to people I could learn from and served as a sounding board for my ideas.
Parents should be a great sounding board, but they should not be the ones filling out the applications.
It holds far more power in that realm, and could act as a sounding board for constituents' concerns.
I'm often a sounding board for them as they figure out how to put their feelings into words.
If anything, Twitter has erred on the side of giving abuse and vitriol an overly generous sounding board.
Here, you might express concern for the heavy drinker and offer to be a sounding board going forward.
Find a good sounding board There will be times when you feel unsure about how to proceed on something.
After the controversial immigration executive order, Pence played the role of sounding board at his old haunt in Congress.
Jim: Matthew, that's the wonderful thing about bringing Werner on this journey because he's such a great sounding board.
She has served as a sounding board for the president -- which could give Mueller's team insights on his thinking.
Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, has been a sounding board on legal immigration reforms.
It's helped me just knowing there was someone on my side who was a cheerleader and a sounding board.
" In their conversations, the friend continued, Hannity served as sounding board: "Hannity's a numbers guy, Trump's a numbers guy.
Mr. Trump, a television connoisseur and former reality star, regularly turns to TV personalities as an informal sounding board.
"I'll talk to my parents as a sounding board," says 18-year-old Kathleen Deedy of Mission Hills, Kan.
"I'll talk to my parents as a sounding board," says 18-year-old Kathleen Deedy of Mission Hills, Kan.
They often impart words of wisdom to keep you motivated and can act as a sounding board during challenging times.
Because Twitter is an important news source, as well as a popular sounding board, the shutdowns disrupted the global conversation.
Work with a financial advisor who can be a sounding board — and a hand-holder when the market is volatile.
Yet I yearned to have a sounding board that didn't involve my family, who worried too much about me already.
I think one of the things that a strong venture partner can do is be a really good sounding board.
Jesse Rodriguez, the platoon's top enlisted Marine who serves as a sounding board and a mentor, they found their footing.
My husband had always been my best friend, my primary confidant, my sounding board, and my greatest source of support.
The arm of God forms the sounding board with a young man in front kneeling and holding sheets of music.
Or, as I often lovingly refer to it, being held hostage as the helpless sounding board for people's misdirected rage.
Lucca, meanwhile, often plays the sounding board for Diane, as if she and Maia were going halfsies on Alicia's role.
The designer Tom Ford, in a statement, described Mr. Filipowski as a daily sounding board about branding and press strategy.
Throughout, the friend acts as a supportive entity, providing a sounding board for Libicki's feelings of regret, frustration, and shame.
Find a new sounding board We all need someone at work to bounce ideas off of or to vent to.
The GBF is the lead's moral sounding board, there to deliver punchlines and to aid in bringing the clueless couple together.
While the actress is a great sounding board, Theroux admits his public life is different after marrying an A-list celebrity.
But Obama was less of a sounding board for a potential candidacy for Biden, as he was for some other candidates.
"My mother, Eve, is my biggest inspiration, my most encouraging champion, and my greatest sounding board," he writes on his blog.
She did, however, continue informally orienting workers to life in the warehouse, serving as a sounding board and dispenser of advice.
Anthony and Bryant have grown close over the years, with Bryant becoming something of a mentor and sounding board for Anthony.
When a faculty member is able to serve as a mentor and sounding board for student ideas, exciting innovations may follow.
That's what Daniel likes about her, is that he can trust her; they can be a sounding board for one another.
"When you are talking to someone who is overburdened, become a sounding board for what needs to be renegotiated," she added.
These quasi relationships were accompanied by hours of texting or G-chatting that mostly involved me being an attentive sounding board.
However, the ornament's reviews on Amazon have become somewhat of a sounding board and venting outlet for critics of the President-elect.
Re: Lawyer: I'm a lawyer, and happy to be a sounding board and sympathetic ear and to offer minor research or advice.
Whether it's your best friends, or fellow colleagues, this network can offer advice or act as a sounding board in tough times.
On the daily level of interaction, the WhatsApp groups are successful at providing a sounding board of assistance and in motivating farmers.
Career counselors can help you map out a job search, build a resume, polish your online image and be a sounding board.
And I think everybody does always look to her to be that rock solid, smart sounding board for everyone to turn to.
The source said Comey would share the information with those close to him to use them, in part, as a sounding board.
But Parliament can, from time to time, throw one back to the People, treating them as a bit of a sounding board.
Usually, the messages are from players facing retirement, those who remember how helpful it was to have an independent, caring sounding board.
She became a kind of spokeswoman and sounding board, conveying their needs and requests to guards and helping them talk through experiences.
I bonded immediately in phone conversations with these women as we listened intently to each other's struggles, providing a crucial sounding board.
And it was Pence, along with Verma, who offered Senate Republicans a steady sounding board during their fraught work on health care.
Bickell said Harding, who lives in suburban Minneapolis and serves as a high school assistant coach, has been a valuable sounding board.
Start by having an honest (and likely uncomfortable) conversation, avoid showing any hints of favoritism, and then find a new sounding board.
He wasn't merely Kubrick's personal assistant from 1975 onward—he was a central confidant, a man Kubrick used as a sounding board.
A former actress 28 years his junior, she had long since become Vaccaro's aide-de-camp, senior adviser, sounding board and constant companion.
As a Democrat, she was his sounding board, leading to give and take that helped cast him as a moderate Republican in Congress.
Matt Shakman was very creatively open, which was a pleasure, because you'd get to suggest ideas and be a sounding board for ideas.
Kaia told PEOPLE in May that she uses her supermodel mom as a sounding board as she begins to navigate her modeling career.
Kaling previously opened up about how Katherine is her new sounding board, which the soon-to-be toddler may (or may not) enjoy.
"In some cases, it's clear the person is just using you as a sounding board and they feel better after," Dr. Bonior says.
Because I reached out to her before she was publicly labelled a suspect in this case, I became a sounding board for her.
"It was just terrible," says Howard Eskin, a longtime sports talk radio host on WIP, the city's signature sounding board for disgruntled fans.
He has discussed it at length with Aidy Ward, his agent and favored sounding board, and with his captain at City, Vincent Kompany.
She wrote newspaper columns, testified before congressional commissions and public forums, and became a sounding board for other women suffering a similar plight.
Pew is passed from household to household, becoming a sounding board for evangelism and confession, while a spiritual lore builds around their identity.
His New York roots contribute to his rapport with Mr. Trump, who is said to view him as a no-nonsense sounding board.
His regular use of Twitter as a sounding board for his own genuine voice keeps him connected to the public without any buffers.
He had his committee conduct lengthy public hearings, which offered a sounding board for critics and opponents of the treaty and the league.
In recent weeks, a Facebook group for campaign alumni has become a sounding board for complaints about harassment, lewd comments and gender discrimination.
His relationship with his band is rather unique, using them as a sounding board from which he can continue to grow his music.
The post, titled "Is a Tweet policy?" on "The Sounding Board," a forum on the State Department's intranet, prompted thoughtful, though equally perplexed, comments.
Twitter seems to attract the grossest of trolls, many of whom use the social media platform as a sounding board for their racist attitudes.
A confidante and sounding board, Christie has a three-pronged role in Trump's operation: surrogate, adviser and the head of Trump's presidential transition team.
Sources say Vice President Mike Pence has become a bit of a sounding board for Tillerson, and the two men often have lunch together.
Hicks served as a sounding board for the President and was one of the few people in his inner circle that understood his personality.
"As three young college graduates, we turned to this support system as a sounding board to guide us as the business grew," said Jain.
White House aides denied that Mr. Trump seeks Mr. Kelly's blessing, but confirmed that he views him as a crucial confidant and sounding board.
He also serves as a sounding board on policy issues, effectively taking on some of the duties of the vacant chief of staff slot.
He is especially close to the reclusive conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah, who is a frequent sounding board for Mr. Bannon.
Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and he serves as a sounding board for officials like Lt. Gen.
Guerrasio: But when you&aposre in Thailand, did you talk to anyone on the set or Spike, just to use as a sounding board?
Since then, most of the work has fallen to Ms. Coulter, though she refers to Ms. Atencio as her "spiritual guide" and sounding board.
Mr. Israel said he intended to remain active in politics as a Democratic sounding board but would devote significant time to completing his second book.
Through it all she's climbed the corporate ladder and remained a rock and sounding board for her colorful cast of family members, colleagues and friends.
She's mainly a sounding board and semi-narrator, but at least she balances out the narrative as the one person who's unabashedly on Sam's side.
Portman said he served mostly as a sounding board for Collins, listening carefully to her as she weighed the pros and cons of the nomination.
He's very direct, and doesn't mix his words, so I use him as a sounding board for some questions about the current state of vinyl.
The women help me solve problems big and small, providing a sounding board, advice and counsel and often a hearty laugh that brightens my day.
Initially founded as a sounding board for how Smith could prepare to defend Axon's technology, the board's insight has become part of Axon's product development.
My spouse is going through chemotherapy, and I'm doing my best to be the sounding board they need, but the daily rundowns are emotionally taxing.
Far from being isolated at "48 Hours," Ms. Zirinsky has been a sounding board and a trusted counselor to employees across CBS News for years.
The fall of Vine really brought it into focus for, at least a lot of my users, and the people I use as a sounding board.
Campbell's background gave little inkling he would become a mentor and sounding board for a list of technology-industry leaders that included Apple's late co-founder.
Schiller, who has an apartment near Trump's in Trump Tower, wears many hats in the White House: press wrangler, body man, private muscle and sounding board.
It is hard to tell from the outside how much influence he wields internally, but in him, world leaders, you may find a helpful sounding board.
The post-Hicks era is a vast unknown for aides, who worry Trump will unravel without the near-constant presence of his sounding board and interpreter.
"Cannes is a natural homeland and a global sounding board for those who (re)awaken minds and question our stances and fixed ideas," the statement read.
As Fisher begins what can be a stressful process for a teenager, he'll have Barrett as a sounding board and confidant, and the support won't stop there.
McGowan's Twitter account has become an important sounding board in the wake of allegations that producer Harvey Weinstein has spent decades sexually harassing, assaulting, and raping women.
Though Twitter has become a huge sounding board for celebrities, journalists and the president of the United States, the platform has failed to jump-start user growth.
"That's like my little brother," Paul told TNT about Mitchell, who used the Rockets veteran as a sounding board before last year's draft and throughout this season.
Then I gather my tools, the cherry sounding-board tray that will rest on my lap, the phone, the bird book to look up the purple martin.
Mr. Tigerman and Ms. McCurry occasionally collaborated on projects, but they more often took on their own projects, each serving as the other's critic and sounding board.
He has emerged as a key sounding board for Mr. Trump, who has publicly referred to Mr. Pillsbury as "the leading authority on China" on multiple occasions.
Though not a White House official, Hannity has been an informal adviser and sounding board for Mr. Trump, according to The New York Times and other reports.
In addition to her work at TBGA, she advises startups through Columbia Business School's Entrepreneurial Sounding Board and is a teaching fellow at the NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center.
If any new constructors are ever doubting themselves and need a sounding board, or want to collaborate on a puzzle, I am happy to be a partner!
Hawk-eyed Twitter watchers would have known something was up when the President's Twitter account, a constant sounding board, remained relatively dormant for about half of Wednesday.
Pence has already been invited to the Senate for weekly meetings of Republicans there, and McConnell speculated he may serve as a good sounding board for lawmakers' concerns.
Off-camera, the actress is a friend and sounding board for the 38-year-old actor, providing career advice about what it takes to stay in the industry.
A friend of Hannity's told the New York Times' Matthew Shaer that in their conversations together, Hannity serves as a "sounding board" for Trump to bounce ideas off.
They say that he frames policy and that she is more of a sounding board, contributing only on issues she knows well, including education, culture and women's rights.
It is hard not to misread the changing rules of business when you once rewrote them—even harder when some of your oldest friends are your sounding board.
"We were supposed to see each other like three days after the crash," said Sharapova, who explained that Bryant had been an "incredible sounding board" throughout her career.
"It provides a second set of eyes and ears to better align teams and business units and gives the CEO a close confidante and sounding board," she said.
Or, if you're an only child, a family friend who has known you for a while can be a great sounding board for discussing mother-daughter issues, she says.
After losing the 2016 election, Clinton has continued to play a central role in the Democratic Party, often serving as a sounding board for several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
Ms. Wintour has been, if not formally a headhunter or employment agency, a very active sounding board and adviser for numerous brands in the game of designer musical chairs.
When I ask the Sounding Board team what the unsolved challenges of conversational AI are, they answered with a checklist that would intimidate a minor deity: depth, said one.
Twitter, for one, has gone from a troll-filled website wrought with controversial and hurtful statements to a cleaner, less hateful platform that doubles as the president's sounding board.
He's already hosted meetings and joint fundraisers for his endorsed candidates, while acting as a sounding board for them on whatever problems might come up on the campaign trail.
Because the show itself functions as one long confessional monologue, with the viewer as the protagonist's personal sounding board as she strides around the streets of London, causing trouble.
"It's been a good sounding board to get together with other vets and vent and express their agitation or their frustration with the way things are going," Bedingfield explains.
I didn&apost have much of an agenda other than catching up and using them as a sounding board while I sketched out the next phase of my life.
Burst works hand-in-hand with a network of dental hygienists and dental professionals both as a channel to sell through and a sounding board for new product development.
"Sometimes, my mom will say my colors are wacky, but we have a lot of fun together, and it's great to have her as a sounding board," Matilda says.
Some seeders have offered help in the form of tips on how to structure funds, finding real estate and acting as a sounding board on strategies, fund managers have said.
In the past decade it has been Ivanka, not Trump's wife Melania, who served as his sounding board and ballast in the development and operation of the Trump business empire.
And he said he would be a sounding board to Senate Republicans to ensure the two sides stay on the same page, even giving senators his private cell phone number.
Trump losing trusted aide, sounding board Keith Schiller may not be a household name, but he is frequently in the background when you see photographs and video of President Trump.
The story's actual big bad, Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon) is shown having violent, joyless sex with his wife, who mostly acts as a housewife and sounding board for his goals.
Her mother, Dzenita, often travels with her and helps scout opponents and acts as a sounding board, even during the on-court coaching visits the regular WTA Tour events allow.
The site is intended to be a sounding board and a fellowship, but it's also an online magazine where black women in ministry write articles about sexuality, relationships, family, and spirituality.
BJ: I don't feel like the movie is meant, from my standpoint, or Tarell's, as an objective, to be a teaching point or a sounding board or a lesson for anyone.
Icahn, who has been friendly with Trump for decades, served as a sounding board for Trump and was instrumental in vetting people for key positions before Trump was inaugurated in 2017.
Without my colleagues all yammering in a public room I also had less of a sounding board to work through ideas with, so I felt a little bit adrift at times.
This way you have a sounding board to help you objectively see through your own self-doubt and determine whether you've actually been slighted or ignored, or whether you're being paranoid.
Not going to lie, my eyes glaze over a bit with all of the technical theory, but all he really needs is a sounding board to talk them through out loud.
Moreover, an informal group of retired Indonesian and Australian generals often act as a sounding board for politicians of both countries and work to keep military ties healthy, Mr. O'Neil said.
Icahn, who has been friendly with Trump for decades, has been a sounding board for Trump and was instrumental in vetting people for key positions before Trump was inaugurated in 2017.
He used his authors as a sounding board for his own ideas and philosophies and helped shape the worlds and underpinning structures that would become Asimov's Foundation and Heinlein's Future History stories.
As we can hear on the publicly accessible Nixon tapes, however, Lady Bird's successor Pat Nixon, rarely, if ever, played the same kind of role as a sounding board for her husband.
As volunteers, our primary role is to provide moral support; facilitate communication with family members and legal service providers; and serve as a sounding board for frustration, confusion and, often, raw despair.
I don't even have that much work to do today, but one of my coworkers needed a sounding board/some advice/a vent session regarding some ongoing people problems in our office.
Madley Croft, who helped write two of the album's songs and served as a sounding board, praised Jehnny Beth's genre experiments, which include android vocal stylings, melancholic saxophones and a piano ballad.
Sebastian even offers to be Villanelle's emotional sounding board, and it's very clear he actually means it, going so far as to unwittingly urge our international killer to get back in the field.
The figure of the gay man working behind the scenes to make others — especially women — beautiful, acting as a sounding board and sidekick, has been a dominant trope of queer narratives for decades.
Men on the Internet have the distinct luxury of viewing me as not a real person, but rather a sounding board for their one-way flirtations and innovations in setting up jerk-offs.
The Contact comparisons are apt for a lot of reasons: the female-scientist protagonist with an amiable but judgmental male foil who doesn't forward the plot much, but does provide a sounding board.
According to an article in Washingtonian magazine, Bezos ran his Amazon idea past Ted Leonsis, then AOL's president, who would go on to act as a sounding board for the e-commerce entrepreneur.
The President has spoken with Porter multiple times since he left the White House, relishing his former aide as an outside sounding board and counselor, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
Graham was a sounding board for Trump -- someone who would listen to him vent as he tried to convince him that a shorter trial, one with no witnesses, was the best path forward.
The White House's deputy director of legislative affairs in charge of relations with the House, Ms. Meyer, 45, is serving as both sounding board and communicator between two prominent addresses on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Aides insist the speech was entirely Trump's devising -- "We were more of a sounding board than anything else," said one top adviser -- but elements of his remarks contained clear fingerprints from his top aides.
Trump's speech will serve as a sounding board for his reelection campaign, as well as his last chance to address senators directly before the Senate takes its final vote Wednesday in his impeachment trial.
But what the Sounding Board team learned from this flurry of experimentation was that you need to strike a balance with the user: give them what they want but not too much of it.
He's my support system, sounding board, handyman, editor, dishwasher loader, personal graphic designer, voice of reason, reminder to unplug the hair dryer, protector against scary night noises, and a myriad of other important roles.
There are multiple members of the crew who have kids that are on the spectrum and we'd actually use them very often as a sounding board for if what we were doing felt right.
Meadows has grown incredibly close to Trump during the past few years, serving as the president's sounding board on issues ranging from the border wall to conservative allegations of bias tainting the Russia probe.
If Trump is sufficiently wise, and confident in his personal relationship with the King, he could serve as an important sounding board at what is clearly a crossroads for the oil-rich desert kingdom.
It could happen that spending time in a romantic relationship that began at work will bring you closer together because you share a common interest and can be a sounding board for each other.
I make all my crosswords by hand, then send them by snail mail to my good friend and partner, Nadine Anderton, who serves as my sounding board, personal editor and conduit to crossword editors.
The casual coffee chat is the first thing to get cut in a busy week, but having this sounding board is invaluable to clarify your goals and hurdles and expose you to new opportunities.
After Sanders laid out his initial goal — to ensure there was a candidate pushing Clinton to address progressive issues — Press agreed to assemble a small groups of advisers to act as a sounding board.
Marlo isn't intended to be a portrait of postpartum psychosis either, though it's possible that's what she's experiencing when she hallucinates a twentysomething version of herself to serve as a helping hand and sounding board.
Sounding Board took home $500,000 for the first-place prize, followed by runner-up Alquist from Czech Technical University in Prague, and third-place winner, What's Up Bot from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Not only will the new chairman get to learn from Mr. Musk — who previously held this position until the state told him he had to resign — the new chairman will be Mr. Musk's sounding board!
"It's an organization that has been swept away from its mandate to become a sounding board for clashes that happen elsewhere, and that translates into political and financial hijacking," said a former European UNESCO ambassador.
"The rather earnest soloist in a concerto had to insert a timpani stick into the sounding board at the end of a huge Bösendorfer while keeping his other hand on the keys," Benjamin later wrote.
Clinton also wants a vice president who acts as a sounding board for her, as Mr. Biden did for Mr. Obama and Al Gore for her husband, and can handle any task, domestic or foreign.
As ever, the key is keeping the company's proprietary Android skin as much in the background as possible, and using OnePlus' actively online community as a sounding board for new features through the beta program.
The planned meeting, sponsored by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, headed by Donald S. Zagoria, falls far short of talks between the two governments and has been designed as an initial sounding board.
As the prevailing sounding board for the angst of a zillion sports fans for 30 years, Mike Francesa has always approached his New York talk show with an atypical sobriety — for sports radio, that is.
He was a sounding board for the leader of the recent Florida ballot campaign that restored voting rights to up to 20143 million former felons, and helped lead similar initiatives in Rhode Island and Louisiana.
"Whatever issues that were happening, I was trying to solve them," says Shreibman, who had become a valuable sounding board for the band after serving as their tour manager and co-habitating with Desmond for years.
Clinton sees him as her most trusted confidant and sounding board on national security and the economy, advisers say; one recalled a recent golf outing where Mr. Clinton received several phone calls and emails from Mrs.
And I'll always be there should you need any advice or just want to use me as a sounding board, but you need to make the changes you think to get us to the next stage.
"There are eight bazillion things that have to be done, and having someone who is a sounding board to bounce ideas off, to push back when something doesn't make sense, is really helpful," Ms. Miller said.
And thus, poor Joe finds himself smack in the middle of a conflict between two people who have zero sense of boundaries, and use him as a personal sounding board for their inner thoughts, anxieties, and indiscretions.
He calls it "blitzscaling," and today at the four-day WIRED25 festival in San Francisco, he explained the basic concepts to his good friend and intellectual sounding board Joi Ito, the iconoclastic director of MIT's Media Lab.
Muggsy Bogues, at 25-27 the shortest player in the league's history, has become a mentor and sounding board of sorts for Thomas since the two met years ago, when Thomas was still at the University of Washington.
Cuban, whose media properties include a movie studio and cable channel, was a key sounding board to help refocus the renamed AllScreen into a site that syndicated content from major media companies to Twitter, Facebook and other sites.
The recently concluded gathering at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland serves as a sounding board for world leaders and policymakers to express their views on the global economy and the inherent challenges that various nations face.
Certainly, no one makes a documentary alone, and I will always be profoundly grateful to every member of my incredible team, including Mr. Tuchman, who served as an invaluable adviser and sounding board for me during this process.
The man Judge Hardiman was going to see, it turns out, was Judge D. Brooks Smith, who serves with him on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, an old friend and professional sounding board.
It feels almost like the first two minutes of a movie stretched out to cover an entire hour, even when Holden first meets Agent Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), the man who will become his partner, foil, and sounding board.
Foy has the grabbier role as one of those talkative folks who can't experience a feeling without placing it under a microscope for examination; Smith is a comparatively relaxed, reflective presence, without whom Foy would have no sounding board.
Sam Mewis, the United States midfielder, said Thursday that she had been in regular contact with her older sister, the Houston Dash and former United States midfielder Kristie Mewis, as a sounding board or to talk through pregame nerves.
Although not a prime candidate for a support group, she grudgingly attends one, where she meets Judy (Linda Cardellini), a more upbeat personality who instantly insinuates herself into Jen's life, becoming the friend and sounding board she wouldn't admit she needed.
Andrea never develops a purpose in the movie, beyond a sympathetic sounding board and convenient resource-vendor for Thomas, and Malcolm is a potentially rich character who gets overshadowed quickly and thoroughly by the drama building around Jeremy, Ffion, and Thomas.
The sounding board for more than half a million subscribers is the place to be for everything from sharing customer-service experiences with niche beauty brands and seeing how people organize their vanities to garnering constructive criticism on cut-crease techniques.
In fact, Mazan is continuing to coach some of the roughly 30 executive coaches who work with Sounding Board as contractors, and she isn't alone, says Tao, noting that many of the startup's senior coaches work with more junior coaches.
As Mr. Parker stepped away to resume his solitary work, Mr. Stone explained that his role in these moments was to be a sounding board for Mr. Parker but also to remind him that he's just got to write something down.
Think of it this way: if you're getting into the nitty gritty of your life without learning about the other person first, you're sending the message that you see them as nothing more than a sounding board for your problems.
He ingratiated himself in part by offering himself as a sounding board on topics ranging from the North American Free Trade Agreement to to the Russia investigation, and he would join in as the president criticized the attorney general, Mr. Sessions.
Begay, a former Tour winner and a recovering alcoholic, has been a sounding board, along with the swimmer Michael Phelps, for Woods since he sought professional help for mismanaging pain medications shortly after being charged with driving under the influence.
CIMON-2's creators think the robot could act as a sounding board for astronauts who are feeling stressed but don't necessarily want to talk to their crewmates about it during a trip in deep space, developer Matthias Biniok told Axios.
Hulk has a great overall game sense and was my main sounding board for strategy ideas and discussions, he gets a lot of flack for not be the most mechanically skilled but he does everything he can to make up for it.
"[It's great] to have a cohort that's a sounding board and a critical peer group that can poke holes in my thinking," Pascoe said, noting that her group helps her see where she has blind spots but in a "very nonthreatening, noncompetitive" way.
The Real Deal: As the Skywalker saga wraps up, it might make fans everywhere happy to know that those working on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker had a particular advisor on hand as a sounding board—and it's not Dave Filoni.
For the players who are not religious, he offers a confidential, independent sounding board; for those who are, there is the chance to tap into the network that O'Boyle, a vicar in the Church of England, has among all faith groups in Nottingham.
But Discord became a private sounding board for the movement, and over time, Discord groups devoted to far-right politics — including one where newcomers were required to show proof of Caucasian skin before being given posting privileges — swelled to thousands of members.
In To All The Boys I've Loved Before, one of the boys Lara Jean loved turns out to be gay, and while Lucas becomes Lara Jean's trusted friend and confidant for the rest of the film, his role is to be LJ's sounding board.
At first, Nick was just a sounding board since Gypsy was all alone; not much is known about Nick's own backstory but he told Gypsy that he had "voices" inside his head, and determined that he probably had some sort of split-personality disorder.
So Zuckerberg's motives for this meeting are not so much to prove to conservatives that Facebook is or isn't staffed by partisans, but to show that it truly is just a public sounding board with no interest in generating any original content of its own.
Amazon also announced the winner of its inaugural Alexa Prize, a university competition it held to advance the field of conversational A.I. The winning team was Sounding Board, from the University of Washington, who had built a socialbot that engages users in thoughtful discussions.
E2A2, an alliance of major suppliers and experts in the areas of Form I-9 and E-Verify, stands ready to be a sounding board and resource to these committees and agencies on 'real-world' practices as they move forward on E-Verify reform.
Strebe moved the velvet rope aside and explained the work's meaning ("It's a denial of the seductiveness of the senses") and the reasoning behind the venue ("The stock exchange, as the holy grail of value determination, is almost like a sounding board to the art work").
He's operated, aides and advisers say, as a sort of all-purpose counselor of sorts to Trump in recent months -- part strategist, part sounding board, part friend, and often (perhaps to the surprise of many in his home state of New Jersey), a calming voice of reason.
The trilateral talks between America, the EU and Japan are meant as an incubator for rules that could be taken to China; those between the EU and China are designed to be a sounding-board for those ideas and to prepare the ground for a proper negotiation.
The network, which is free to join, first of all serves as a sounding board, where farmers — who might live in a community with other farmers, but might also be quite solitary — can ask each other questions or get advice on agricultural or small-holding matters.
Viewed as a voice of moderation on trade in the Trump administration, Mr. Mnuchin will once again try to do damage control and will be a sounding board for growing concerns about American tariffs on steel and aluminum and the prospect of new tariffs on automobile imports.
The best thing you can do is to stop seeing yourself as someone who should intervene in your daughter's romantic life, DEW, but rather as the person who will support her and be there for her when she needs a sounding board as she navigates this relationship.
In fact, it's hard to overstate how profound a role Playboy played among the millions of American soldiers and civilians stationed in Vietnam throughout the war: as entertainment, yes, but more important as news and, through its extensive letters section, as a sounding board and confessional.
The point was to encourage each other, be a sounding board, and try to pick new skills by doing the exercises and watching the instructional videos provided by Lean In. We followed the curriculum, which we accessed online, and met monthly in each other's Brooklyn apartments for a year.
Clinton has also served as a sounding board for many candidates, including former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenImpeachment inquiry might be public by mid-November: report The Memo: GOP schisms deepen as Trump impeachment pressure rises Graham nixes plan to send Pelosi letter warning GOP won't convict Trump MORE and Sen.
Such is the thinking of Christine Tao and Lori Mazan, co-founders of Sounding Board, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace focused on leadership coaching that has so far raised $1 million in seed funding led by Bloomberg Beta, with participation from Precursor Ventures and numerous angel investors.
Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump strips some Central American countries of aid and denounces the influx of migrants at the southern border, his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has been acting as a sounding board for internal discussions on reforms to the nation's legal immigration system.
Another early sounding board was Keith Schiller, Mr. Trump's longtime director of security and now a member of the White House staff, who would later be tasked with delivering the manila envelope containing Mr. Comey's letter of dismissal to F.B.I. headquarters, an indication of just how personal the matter was to the president.
Big thanks to Salvador Rueda and the staff at the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona for all their help; the many residents of the city who showed such hospitality; Maysun for her excellent photography; and above all, Andrés Bartos, who served as research assistant, tour guide, translator, sounding board, and faithful companion throughout my visit.
Their bond deepened by those tests, Trump continues to rely on Hicks as a sounding board at the White House, aides said, in large part because Trump trusts that his student shares his combative instincts and because Hicks has never used her position as an opportunity to push a political or self-serving agenda.
Kennedy of course is best known for her chic fashion sense, something I'm sure Melania Trump admires, but she was more plugged into her husband's administration than she's given credit for: She knew about his plan to get rid of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and she was a sounding board for him during the Cuban missile crisis.
Al Sharpton, the civil rights leader, and made repeated contact with senior members of the N.A.A.C.P. In recent months, Mr. Merkley and Texas Democrat Julián Castro have reached out to Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change, the progressive civil rights advocacy group that has positioned itself as a go-to sounding board for prospective candidates.
But the film expresses implicit doubt that said story can stand on its own, overrelying on Terence Blanchard's score to dictate emotional cues and cutting away to a parallel storyline involving Gideon, who the movie uses as an all-purpose representation of slavery's evils and a sounding board at which Harriet can direct her declarations about the importance of freedom.
In one Bar-Ilan University study, which looked at the relationships of 120 Israeli start-ups and their VCs, strategic involvement from investors (measured by serving as a sounding board or developing network ties) contributed positively to a sense of cooperation, whereas managerial involvement from VCs (measured by hiring key managers and setting priorities) was found to be negatively associated with entrepreneurs' confidence in investor cooperation.
The rest of this debate could be the most substantive hour in the history of presidential politics, but it wouldn't change what Trump just said, which is that he would rule the country as an authoritarian who would use the presidency not just as a sounding board for people who are deservingly on the fringes of American political life, but to actively subvert democracy.
He's lost his son, and Dolores is a natural sounding board for his grief, for a few reasons: His secrets are even safer with her than they'd be with a priest; she's an excellent listener, programmed to ask personal questions as a way of ingratiating herself to the guests; and, most of all, she knows something about loss because she experiences it every day.
When offering help, she said, be specific about what you can provide to support the patient: meals; child care or elder care; transportation to and from treatments; companionship during doctor visits (especially helpful if you can take notes), tests or treatments; a sounding board, perhaps even in the middle of the night; a lunch date or fun outing; even a blank journal without instructions about what the patient records in it.
I think she comes and goes with issues she deeply cares about but when you get to a certain level of power a lot of times, and you see this in business too, a lot of times people will say yes just because you happen to be the boss.... ...I think it gives you a sounding board who is a little bit more unconventional than the 37 people that might happen to be standing round a table at that one time who just want to appease.

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