pollsters

plural of pollster
as in interviewers
a person who goes around and approaches people with a request for opinions or information he wouldn't tell the exit pollster whom he'd voted for

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Recent Examples of pollsters Xi even edged out Trump in winning people’s confidence, the pollsters found. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026 The conundrum of ‘weighting’ Beyond the challenges from prediction markets, pollsters confront the stubborn problem of low response rates. — W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026 In past years, some of their polling has shown higher Latino support for Democrats and lower Latino support for Republicans compared to other pollsters. — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026 Political strategists and pollsters say surveys are usually more reliable after Labor Day, so here are some of the results that caught our attention this week. — Laura Beveridge, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2026 That is a sharp decline from after the 2024 election, when 77% of Democrats, 82% of Republicans and 73% of independents expressed such confidence, the same pollsters found then. — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Maxwell thinks Prince Avenue is the stronger team, a belief not shared by the other six pollsters in the AJC Composite Rankings. — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 10 Sep. 2026 Senior advisors to the president recently met with pollsters who reported lackluster enthusiasm for this year’s midterms, according to NBC News. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2026 Despite pollsters’ best efforts to forecast outcomes, voters have their own ideas. — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2026
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interviewers
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  • Red carpet interviewers have not yet been announced by MTV, but Snoop Dogg is set to host the main spectacle at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 27 Sep. 2026
  • However, there are some areas in which AI interviewers can't quite keep up with their human counterparts, recruiters say.
    — Sophie Caldwell Juhohn Lee, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026

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“Pollsters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pollsters. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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