POLLING Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

polling

verb

present participle of poll

as in interviewing

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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Relevance

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reporting

as in shaving

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 polling Find out how candidates are polling in competitive Senate races. — Josephine Murphy, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026 And Le Pen is polling well against the centrist candidates in a possible final round, with small to medium leads. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026 The party is currently polling at approximately 35% in voter intention surveys ahead of next year’s presidential election — far away the first-place party. — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2026 Serbia's students and their Students' List ticket are believed to be polling close with Vucic's SNS. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 Piper Sandler’s annual teen survey — polling 9,000 teens across 47 states — shows overall beauty spend swelled 7 percent this year, with growth across all key categories, including cosmetics, skin care, hair and fragrance. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 In 2024, Standard Chartered started polling employees on their backgrounds to get a better understanding of socio-economic diversity within the business. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 How successful the gerrymandering actually was remains to be seen — Republicans are polling poorly in the Lone Star State, perhaps in part because of their blatant attempt to cheat voters out of their voices. — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2026 But former vice president Kamala Harris is threatening to crowd the centrist Californian got-the-receipts lane in a prospective Democratic lineup and already polling higher than Newsom among likely 2028 voters. — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026

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Verb

Working on this book wasn’t a matter of my interviewing my father and turning the transcripts into a book.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
Amid the search, police said investigators were interviewing family members and were working to collect any surveillance footage and develop a suspect and/or vehicle description.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of interviewing

Verb

Men in some communities stop shaving, while women may remove their jewelry.

— Shushan Karapetian, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
Like almost winning a race, almost shaving a second off my time for the 3200m run, my event in high school, the one that got me into college, a recruit for someone else to gamble on.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of shaving

Verb

That coincides with Chinese research ships spending an extraordinary amount of time apparently surveying undersea cables—not to mention Chinese commercial ships being investigated for cutting cables in both European and Asian waters.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 28 Oct. 2026
Emergency crews in Florida and Alabama are surveying damage wrought by Hurricane Isaias, after the storm bashed into the Gulf Coast as a Category 2 storm Friday night.

— Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of surveying

Verb

The plans were developed by the Department of Government Efficiency, a cost-cutting team initially overseen by billionaire Elon Musk, in response to a presidential order meant to rid the government of DEI programs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
Following its 2015 merger, the company adopted an aggressive cost-cutting mandate that leadership reported hitting, quarter after quarter, ahead of schedule.

— Amer Al Ahbabi, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of cutting

Verb

Their eulogy was her father, Fidel Banda, methodically clipping and arranging the flowers for his daughter.

— Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Not your average road dog, Berlant only recently began taking a notebook onstage and clipping her work for social media.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of clipping

Verb

The Legislature has been trimming home building regulations and should continue.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
During the winter holidays, millions of people are traveling, many of whom are expected at the Thanksgiving table or tree-trimming party.

— Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of trimming

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