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 How much people like the idea depends on what they’re told about it, pollsters have found. — Kate Wells, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026 Sixty-one percent of Israelis told pollsters for the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) that the national mood is poor. — Dahlia Scheindlin, Time, 7 Oct. 2026 The polling failure will serve to give further ammunition to the Brazilian right and the Bolsonaro camp, which have long alleged that the nation's leading pollsters turn in work biased in favor of Lula and his Workers Party. — David Unsworth, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Alaska’s general election will also feature another candidate named Dan Sullivan, creating an unusual ballot issue that the Times said prompted pollsters to specify that respondents were being asked about the incumbent. — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2026 When the pollsters gave likely voters additional, critical information about both candidates, Bass shot up by 5 points and took a narrow lead over Raman, 40% to 39%, with 21% undecided, according to FM3. — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pollsters
interviewers
Noun
  • For these polls, interviewers placed more than 480,000 calls to more than 170,000 voters.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • At more than half the locations, on-site staff declined to answer questions or allow the interviewers access.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Pollsters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pollsters. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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