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noun

ˈpōl How to pronounce poll (audio)
Definition of pollnext
as in head
the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth a jaunty cap was perched on his poll

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verb

1
as in to survey
to go around and approach (people) with a request for opinions or information assigned to poll residents on their views about a program for recycling

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2
as in to shave
to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument time to poll the sheep's wool

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Recent Examples of poll
Noun
Voters were largely split on the measure in a September poll by the Public Policy Institute of California. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 Polls are currently predicting a much closer race than O’Rourke’s narrow 2018 loss, with Talarico showing narrow leads in most polls. — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
The New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations polls a rotating panel of approximately 1,300 household heads. — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026 The survey polled 855 people in Gaza face-to-face in the respondents’ homes, shelters, or camps, and 800 in the West Bank face-to-face in the respondents’ homes. — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for poll
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poll
  1. head
  2. survey
  3. shave
  4. skull
  5. interview
  6. clip
  7. dome
  8. cut
Noun
  • Rooms While many Los Angeles hotels lean into palm trees and poolside glamour, Moxy heads for the desert.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
  • For Rebeca Aguilar, head of international distribution at Movistar Plus, co-productions offer more than financial backing.
    — Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of head
Verb
  • Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been predicting an 84,000 increase and unemployment to remain steady.
    — Sarah Min,Davis Giangiulio,Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The poll surveyed 427 Latinos and has a margin of error of about 6 percentage points among that group.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of survey
Verb
  • Judge Underhill could have added to the 10 years of incarceration that the federal sentencing guidelines recommend but instead departed downward from them and shaved three years off them.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The option could be useful when customers don’t have enough miles for the entire ticket and are looking to shave some cash off the ticket price.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of shave
Noun
  • The grisly discovery of a human skull got even more mysterious when searchers in western North Carolina failed to locate additional bones.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Prosecutor Chryso Perganti said that the boy was pronounced dead in hospital a couple of hours after his fall, suffering multiple skull and bone fractures and damage to his vital organs.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of skull
Verb
  • To prepare, the team interviewed many people working in the region.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Knight, who wrote the film’s framing structure and interviewed the band at length, explained that part of the appeal of the project was that the results were far from expected.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of interview
Verb
  • Ohtani clipped Drake Baldwin’s mitt with his bat and was awarded first base for catcher’s interference.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Gen Z Wants to Go Ghost, Not Girlboss That said, the characters do have to be worth clipping, and love him or hate him, Ryan Murphy has always had a knack for creating fictional people who feel bigger than whatever nonsensical story spawned them.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of clip
Noun
  • Under the new Endangered Species Act interpretations, it would not be considered a federal offense to clear private palmetto flatwoods or cypress domes.
    — Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Across the outfield concourse of the stadium (formerly known as Coolray Field), more than 300 emerald ceramic domes will be set to temperatures ranging from 200 to 700 degrees.
    — Sam Flemming, AJC.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of dome
Verb
  • Inspectors observed cutting boards with cut marks and no longer cleanable in the first-floor kitchen.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Ellison has taken an opposing view from his predecessors who confronted crumbling industry economics by cutting expenditures to boost their corporate bottom lines.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
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“Poll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poll. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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