respondent

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Recent Examples of respondent The majority of respondents were also opposed to National Guard deployment in Durham, Raleigh, Greensboro and Winston-Salem. Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025 As Revenues Rise, Sustainability Climbs The Agenda To see if there are correlations between corporate sustainability and annual revenue, Forbes Research asked each respondent to select which revenue range among five applied to their company. Forbes Research, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Asked who is shouldering the cost of tariffs, the average respondent says 31% is paid by the consumer, 29% by wholesalers and importers, and 23% by retailers. Steve Liesman, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025 In fact, nearly every respondent reported using LLMs in some form as part of their regular workflow. Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for respondent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for respondent
interviewee
Noun
  • These additions mirror our interviewees’ top 10 received gifts even more closely.
    Ellen T. Meiser, The Conversation, 5 Dec. 2025
  • One of Kendle’s interviewees was Melinda Utal, a hypnotherapist and a freelance writer from California.
    Larissa MacFarquhar, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Respondent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respondent. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.

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