The phrase
"test balloon" means to try out an idea or suggestion to see how people will react to it before making a final decision.
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Sentences with «test balloon»
- In other states, utilities floated test balloons — offering up one or two units to test the regulatory waters — and their narratives reflected the results of those experiments. (synapse-energy.com)
- Google will spend the next 12 months testing the balloons before introducing 20,000 of the devices commercially, according to The Guardian. (fortune.com)
- While Google has been testing these balloons in the U.S. for the past two years — they have a test site in Winnemucca, Nev. — this is one of the rare times they've actually been spotted by a human being. (recode.net)
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