respondent

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Recent Examples of respondent Not a single respondent in the survey viewed IP protection as a non-issue. Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026 One respondent, Roger Sheffield, participated in a retreat in Colorado in early 2024, after psilocybin was legalized but before the state’s current regulatory structure was in place. Natalia V. Osipova, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026 The child’s native mode of learning, asking questions out loud, finally has a tireless respondent. Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026 To that end, Democrats do have an early polling edge before the midterm elections, in part because of respondent dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, mostly driven by the economy. Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for respondent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for respondent
interviewee
Noun
  • Now, even a Gen Z hiring manager is backing the bosses who slam her generation after an interviewee FaceTimed her and demanded more money.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 June 2026
  • Oral history works with the interviewee as a partner in dialogue and the verbal form historical truth can take is always co-constructed (Cook and Goodall 2013; Goodall and Cadzow 2009; Portelli 1991).
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 3 June 2026

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“Respondent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respondent. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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