: one that conducts a poll or compiles data obtained by a poll
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he wouldn't tell the exit pollster whom he'd voted for
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Most pollsters and experts have predicted Pashinyan, who came to power in 2018 following sweeping street protests, will come out ahead.
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ABC News, 7 June 2026
The Tigers would head to the Sugar Bowl by way of conference tie-ins, and while another top-10 victory over Virginia Tech in New Orleans would sway several other pollsters to rank Auburn as the top team in the land, the big ones that counted awarded the Trojans with the crystal football instead.
—Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
Unaided awareness –the tracking category where pollsters cite awareness of a movie without being prompted — is pretty even among men and women under and over 25.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Not all class war Working-class voters have been telling pollsters for 60 years that the political system doesn’t hear them.
—Nicholas Jacobs, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
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ABC News, 7 June 2026
The Tigers would head to the Sugar Bowl by way of conference tie-ins, and while another top-10 victory over Virginia Tech in New Orleans would sway several other pollsters to rank Auburn as the top team in the land, the big ones that counted awarded the Trojans with the crystal football instead.
—Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
Unaided awareness –the tracking category where pollsters cite awareness of a movie without being prompted — is pretty even among men and women under and over 25.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Not all class war Working-class voters have been telling pollsters for 60 years that the political system doesn’t hear them.
—Nicholas Jacobs, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for pollster
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“Pollster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pollster. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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pollster
noun
poll·ster
ˈpōl-stər 
: one that conducts a poll or collects data obtained by a poll
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