as in inquirers
a person who goes around and approaches people with a request for opinions or information
had no time for an interviewer who wanted to ask me about my phone service
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Recent Examples of interviewers
Amazon built its hiring process around its core Leadership Principles, with interviewers trained to probe for red flags, and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has been outspoken about valuing street smarts and intellectual curiosity over pedigree alone.
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
Our flustered narrator attempts to defend himself on the grounds of sketchy reporting ethics—don’t some interviewers take notes and extrapolate later?
—Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Hammed Animashaun also delivered a cutting take on film junkets with agonizingly enthusiastic influencer interviewers.
—Scott Bryan, Variety, 22 Mar. 2026
Federal funding from the Victims of Crime Act once covered Abbott House’s entire forensic interview program, with comfortable conversation rooms and three interviewers.
—Maddy Keyes, The Frontier, 5 Mar. 2026
For this poll, interviewers placed more than 188,000 calls or texts to more than 86,000 voters.
—New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
That includes nine data collection supervisors, 89 interviewers, five lead interviewers and one task manager.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2026
The men sit across virtual desks from virtual interviewers who are both easygoing and hard-nosed to give them the tools for finding employment once they are released.
—Haven Daley, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
In later conversations with interviewers, the children claimed being touched inappropriately on set by Busfield in their private areas over their clothing, according to KOAT.
—Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 10 Jan. 2026
Sydney Lake, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
Our flustered narrator attempts to defend himself on the grounds of sketchy reporting ethics—don’t some interviewers take notes and extrapolate later?
—Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Hammed Animashaun also delivered a cutting take on film junkets with agonizingly enthusiastic influencer interviewers.
—Scott Bryan, Variety, 22 Mar. 2026
Federal funding from the Victims of Crime Act once covered Abbott House’s entire forensic interview program, with comfortable conversation rooms and three interviewers.
—Maddy Keyes, The Frontier, 5 Mar. 2026
For this poll, interviewers placed more than 188,000 calls or texts to more than 86,000 voters.
—New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
That includes nine data collection supervisors, 89 interviewers, five lead interviewers and one task manager.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2026
The men sit across virtual desks from virtual interviewers who are both easygoing and hard-nosed to give them the tools for finding employment once they are released.
—Haven Daley, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
In later conversations with interviewers, the children claimed being touched inappropriately on set by Busfield in their private areas over their clothing, according to KOAT.
—Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 10 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interviewers
Noun
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Most people will never attend a political rally in person, and most hang up when pollsters call.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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But its own pollsters have said the initiative has been unpopular among a large percentage of voters.—
Chelsea Cirruzzo,
STAT,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Late-stage polling showed just a 2-point margin between Van Epps and Behn, indicating that her strategy of grassroots organizing and activating canvassers and volunteers in neighborhoods and counties typically unreached during congressional elections moved the needle.—
Jordan Green,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Dec. 2025
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The central question was where the canvassers lived during the petition drive, Wood said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Mueller repeatedly referred questioners back to the text of his report, apparently unwilling—or unable—to add any words of his own.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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Several questioners pressed Steyer on his positions on Israel’s actions in Palestine and asked him to work to divest state entities from Israeli companies.—
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Interviewers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interviewers. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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