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also canvasers
as in interviewers
a person who goes around and approaches people with a request for opinions or information
worked as a canvasser for a public interest research group
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Recent Examples of canvassers
The canvassers themselves were also becoming a weapon.
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Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
The canvassers were paid workers, making $25 an hour, three times more than Wisconsin’s minimum wage.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
Allows canvassers to submit signatures under penalty of perjury, eliminating the need for notarization.
—Worth Sparkman, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
Going door to door, the canvassers listened to residents’ concerns, shared their own stories about the impact of climate change and highlighted local environmental successes.
—Anne Toomey, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2025
Property owners can legally place signs on their premises to prohibit unwanted visitors, including solicitors, canvassers and other uninvited guests.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
The organization, called Turnout for America, encouraged donors to fund its $45 million plan for hundreds of canvassers to be deployed in seven swing states, the New York Times reported, citing an internal memo.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
On the Democratic side, the campaign used hundreds of volunteers and paid canvassers, including some who drove from San Francisco and Los Angeles.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Door by door, with the blunt methods of a traditional campaign, canvassers were reëstablishing, very belatedly, a dialogue that had lapsed.
—Julia Preston, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
The canvassers were paid workers, making $25 an hour, three times more than Wisconsin’s minimum wage.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
Allows canvassers to submit signatures under penalty of perjury, eliminating the need for notarization.
—Worth Sparkman, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
Going door to door, the canvassers listened to residents’ concerns, shared their own stories about the impact of climate change and highlighted local environmental successes.
—Anne Toomey, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2025
Property owners can legally place signs on their premises to prohibit unwanted visitors, including solicitors, canvassers and other uninvited guests.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
The organization, called Turnout for America, encouraged donors to fund its $45 million plan for hundreds of canvassers to be deployed in seven swing states, the New York Times reported, citing an internal memo.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
On the Democratic side, the campaign used hundreds of volunteers and paid canvassers, including some who drove from San Francisco and Los Angeles.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Door by door, with the blunt methods of a traditional campaign, canvassers were reëstablishing, very belatedly, a dialogue that had lapsed.
—Julia Preston, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvassers
Noun
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Investigators are working to catalog evidence from the ruins of the church and interviewing dozens of victims and witnesses, with the help of victim specialists, child advocates, forensic interviewers and local partners, according to FBI acting special agent in charge Reuben Coleman.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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Respondents were reached by cell phone or landline using live interviewers and by text or online, in English and in Spanish.—
Domenico Montanaro,
NPR,
30 Sep. 2025
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Other independent pollsters have similarly shown his support among Black voters remains low.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The numbers are a slight uptick in his overall rating compared to the pollsters' last survey in April, which saw a near-historic low approval of 39%, with a similar 55% disapproval.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Canvassers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canvassers. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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