as in interviewer
a person who goes around and approaches people with a request for opinions or information
data gathered by nationwide pollers showed the Republicans in the lead
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Recent Examples of poller
Not that those numbers showed any sign of discouraging any of the single-digit candidates, with two low-pollers, Betty Yee and Xavier Becerra, launching new ad campaigns this week.
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Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
The pandemic appears to have accelerated the trend of people ignoring pollers’ calls.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
Pratt has gone from novelty candidate to serious contender to, at the moment, an oh-so-close third-place poller ahead of Tuesday’s primary that will determine what will almost surely be the two candidates who advance to November.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
The pandemic appears to have accelerated the trend of people ignoring pollers’ calls.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
Pratt has gone from novelty candidate to serious contender to, at the moment, an oh-so-close third-place poller ahead of Tuesday’s primary that will determine what will almost surely be the two candidates who advance to November.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poller
Noun
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Argentine interviewer Tomi Munaretto drew a crowd of fans trying to answer his trivia questions.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
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Not by the interviewer, though.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
16 June 2026
Noun
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In the performance & results phase, your role is that of an inquirer.—
Rodney C. Adkins,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2026
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Since Cohn had signed the letter asking for retraction, the lead inquirer did not report to him.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Most pollsters and experts have predicted Pashinyan, who came to power in 2018 following sweeping street protests, will come out ahead.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
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The Tigers would head to the Sugar Bowl by way of conference tie-ins, and while another top-10 victory over Virginia Tech in New Orleans would sway several other pollsters to rank Auburn as the top team in the land, the big ones that counted awarded the Trojans with the crystal football instead.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
6 June 2026
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“Poller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poller. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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