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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soundings
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
take
▪ Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After discreet soundings, they prudently abandoned the idea, which would have involved a major encroachment upon judicial independence.
▪ Anderson participated in the informal soundings on how best the idea might be given institutional and practical form.
▪ He made two more soundings further along the bank and got the same result for both.
▪ His soundings in the City support this view, he said.
▪ Last month, after its preliminary soundings of the market, Dataquest lowered its industry sales forecasts.
▪ Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas.
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Soundings (journal)

Soundings is a triannual academic journal of leftist political thinking, which was established in 1995 and is published by Lawrence and Wishart. The current editors are Sally Davison and Ben Little ( Middlesex University).

Soundings (radio drama)

Soundings is a radio drama series produced from 1985 to 1989 in Ottawa by multimedia artist Jeff Green. Episodes were generally in the science fiction genre.

Soundings (Williams)

Soundings is a single-movement orchestral composition by the American composer John Williams. It was composed for the inaugural season of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and was first performed on October 25, 2003 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Williams.

Soundings (Carter)

Soundings is an orchestral composition by the American composer Elliott Carter. The work was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for their final season with the conductor Daniel Barenboim as music director. It was first performed on October 6, 2005 at the Symphony Center, Chicago, by Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.