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
In addition to Karol G’s appearance on the podcast, content creators from Unwell like Owen Thiele, Madeline Argy, and Hallie Batchelder will conduct interviewers with festival goers and musicians backstage at the festival.
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Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2026
More celebrities are going on them to promote their projects, but these hosts are not interviewers.
—HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
The marketing campaign will attempt to put a positive spin on California’s economy and business climate, echoing how Newsom typically responds when interviewers ask about corporate migrations and loss of population to other states.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2026
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.
—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
Bilingual interviewers began the interview in English and were instructed to follow the lead of the respondent in determining whether to conduct the survey in English or Spanish.
—New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2026
More celebrities are going on them to promote their projects, but these hosts are not interviewers.
—HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
The marketing campaign will attempt to put a positive spin on California’s economy and business climate, echoing how Newsom typically responds when interviewers ask about corporate migrations and loss of population to other states.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2026
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.
—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
Bilingual interviewers began the interview in English and were instructed to follow the lead of the respondent in determining whether to conduct the survey in English or Spanish.
—New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interviewers
Noun
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It was released by the Colorado Polling Institute and conducted by a team of Democratic and Republican pollsters.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
8 Apr. 2026
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Most Israelis still back the campaign, according to multiple pollsters.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026
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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
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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 22 Apr. 2026.
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