A confirmation technique: repeat back what you believe a stakeholder just told you, in your own words, and explicitly ask "did I get that right?" rather than assuming a nod or a vague "sounds good" means real agreement.
Especially valuable when a stakeholder has said two things that seem to contradict each other — restating both and asking for reconciliation forces them to either clarify or admit the tension, surfacing genuine understanding instead of surface-level consensus. Related to Definitional-Alignment Probe, which applies the same "reflect it back and ask" move specifically to term definitions, and to Mining for Conflict (Testing Apparent Consensus), which tests apparent agreement more broadly.
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