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verb

as in to survey
to go around and approach (people) with a request for opinions or information a reporter at the scene interviewing witnesses to the explosion

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Recent Examples of interview
Noun
But federal health officials have mostly been tight-lipped, declining interview requests. ABC News, 9 May 2026 In a recent interview with the Television Academy, the show's star, Harold Perrineau, who plays Sheriff Boyd Stevens, spoke about the twists and turns in the storytelling. Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 9 May 2026
Verb
In February, The View interviewed Talarico ahead of his ultimate victory in Texas’s Democratic primary for the Senate. David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 8 May 2026 The earlier request to interview Musk and Yaccarino was described as voluntary. ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for interview
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interview
Noun
  • Here are four more things The Post learned about this incoming Denver class from observing Saturday’s session.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 May 2026
  • Two weeks later, a special session of the legislature voted to authorize $390 million in bonds for UConn to purchase Waterbury, Bristol, and Day Kimball hospitals.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • Researchers surveyed the deep Cape Range and Cloates submarine canyons in Western Australia and collected over 1,000 samples, reaching depths of up to 14,797 feet, during an expedition led by the museum.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • Officials originally hired a firm to survey approval of a half-cent sales tax for 10 years, but pivoted to 1 cent for 10 years during the recent meeting.
    Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi pressed his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday to pursue a diplomatic resolution to the conflict and refrain from resuming hostilities during a meeting in Beijing.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 7 May 2026
  • On April 17th, Jean attended a first-ever virtual meeting for Midwest-West managers.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • The Vatican did say that Leo had a meeting on the agenda Wednesday with the Holy See’s ambassador to Lebanon, though no details are ever released of such audiences.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • What is perhaps most masterful is the film’s ability to make its audience connect deeply with a character who never once appears on-screen.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • The Orphan Kitten Club’s workshop at the Humane Society this week provided participants an education on several subjects, including how to bottle-train kittens without mothers, tactics for preventing and treating diseases and how to build engagement with foster families for the kittens.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • Bensemoun also invites visiting creators to perform concerts or host workshops.
    Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Mom’s Day blends so well into the May springtime, thus inviting a conversation with the genius and mystery of creation.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 10 May 2026
  • Try to do it in advance so that the conversation can be heard as a request to plan, rather than a demand for course correction.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • Attendance at this year’s show is up about 5% from last year, according to Cinema United, the trade group that organizes the four-day convocation of thousands of movie theater owners, studio executives and industry folks at Caesars Palace.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • On March 5, Washington Square News editor Leena Ahmed broke the story that NYU has canceled all live student graduation speakers for all of its upcoming commencement and convocation ceremonies this spring.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026

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“Interview.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interview. Accessed 12 May. 2026.

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