polling

verb

present participle of poll
1
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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2
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 Merz's Christian Democratic Union was significantly behind, polling 18% and losing about half its support. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026 The party's anti-establishment appeal is no longer confined to eastern Germany; at the federal level, the party is also polling first. — Esme Nicholson, NPR, 6 Sep. 2026 That was far ahead of Merz’s Christian Democratic Union which was seen polling 18% and losing about half its support. — Geir Moulson, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026 All other mainstream parties in Saxony-Anhalt are polling at 54% combined, according to Infratest dimap. — Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026 Since the start of training camp, The Athletic has been polling general managers, high-ranking executives, head coaches, coordinators and other coaches for our fifth annual survey about the upcoming season. — Jeff Howe, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 The good news for Democrats is that most people don’t actually know Piker; polling from earlier this year showed that 60 percent of likely voters have never heard of him. — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2026 Sununu is polling far ahead of Brown, averaging a 33-percentage-point lead, according to RealClearPolitics‘ poll aggregation. — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2026 And the people — the candidates that are polling the best right now are offering an alternative vision, and are speaking to the economic concerns of the voters. — NBC news, 23 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for polling
  1. interviewing
  2. shaving
  3. surveying
  4. cutting
  5. clipping
  6. trimming
Verb
  • An interview with Talarico was also at the center of controversy in February when Stephen Colbert said CBS forbade him from interviewing the candidate.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Heder would work for two years on researching and developing the project with Heumann, interviewing dozens of people involved in the actual Carter-era protest.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of interviewing
Verb
  • As for how Jason’s family would react to him ditching his signature beard, his wife, Kylie Kelce, recently responded to a listener who asked how their four daughters might react to him shaving off his beard on her Not Gonna Lie podcast.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The 23-year-old and his Serbia team-mates won the Davis Cup for the first time in December 2010, and fulfilled a promise by shaving their heads in celebration.
    — Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of shaving
Verb
  • Instead, Dart ran the offense while surveying the defense from the shotgun.
    — Dan Duggan, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Guy Miller / Honolulu Civil Beat via AP Gentry Cruz, who manages the property that the storm split in half, was resigned while surveying the extent of the destruction.
    — Liz Kreutz, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of surveying
Verb
  • On a September 2026 episode of Not Just Football With Cam Heyward, Rodgers offered a small nugget about how the wedding went down before cutting himself off.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The victim told police a handful of men had gotten together drinking and smoking while a tree cutting crew was in the neighborhood after recent storms, records state.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of cutting
Verb
  • Stembel suggests tightly folding or clipping the seed packet closed, and writing the year on it as a quick hack.
    — Bianca Lambert, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Rebroadcasting, clipping or other uses are not permitted without licensing.
    — Brian Smith, Des Moines Register, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of clipping
Verb
  • Landlords Even before legislation banning institutional investors from purchasing more single-family homes became law, the eight largest Wall Street landlords were trimming their portfolios.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The changes include cutting small teams consisting of one to two reports by nearly half and trimming employees seven steps away from the CEO by 20%.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of trimming

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