Similar words: trial balance, balloon, commercial bank, trial, industrial, terrestrial, trial and error, industrialist. Meaning: n. 1. a test of public opinion 2. a balloon sent up to test air currents.
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1. They floated the trial balloon of actually cutting Social Security.
2. Senator Lott is floating trial balloons to test public opinion on the bill.
3. The trial balloon was not to his advantage.
4. Sounding out is also used, where trial balloon ideas are sent to the other side to test their reaction.
5. If the enemy tried to shoot that trial balloon, the men would not go up.
6. It was widely interpreted as a trial balloon aimed at reversing the administration's policy.
7. No sooner did it release its trial balloon on the Luxury Tax, than it met with a public backlash.
8. It seems that NASA is already floating a trial balloon insinuating that the Chile quake was so large that it will, by itself, begin a wave of larger and more frequent quakes.
9. A good cabinet officer will take a policy proposal, put a trial balloon out.
10. It was Mr Florio, elected in 1989, who floated himself as a trial balloon for Clintonomics.
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11. I ought to stress that this was only a trial balloon.
12. It could be simply a defensive move, but some thought it could be a trial balloon for something more intimate.
13. Even as RenRen is using this IPO to float its shares into the U.S. market, Wall Street seems to be using it to float a trial balloon.
14. Thus, General Stanley McChrystal's request for up to 44, 000 more troops in Afghanistan was leaked to Bob Woodward, allowing White House officials to float a trial balloon.
15. So before men would go up in a balloon, they would first float (or send up) a trial balloon without any men in it to test the situation.
16. In a company blog entry, Yahoo VicePresident Wade Chambers said the company was joining OpenSocial now because "it's no longer a trial balloon — it's for real."
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