respondent

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Recent Examples of respondent About 37% of respondents said human financial experts had the greatest influence on their final investment decisions, three times as many as those who cited AI, according to HSBC. Justina Lee, CNBC, 25 June 2026 Nearly two-thirds of respondents chose an event related to the expansion of rights, such as the 13th and 19th amendments. Kaylah Jackson, NBC news, 25 June 2026 Most oral arguments take an hour, with the time divided evenly between the petitioner and respondent. The Conversation, 24 June 2026 Most of the stories of starvation focused on strangers, or claimed that the respondent’s town had been spared the brunt of the famine—even when the statistics painted a different story entirely. Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for respondent
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interviewee
Noun
  • Khozema also sets aside around 20 minutes for the interviewee to ask questions.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • Those types of back-and-forths tell you very little about an interviewee (and even less about your company).
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

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“Respondent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respondent. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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