canvass
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Police could canvass neighborhoods, interview witnesses, check traffic cameras, maybe pull hotel records or receipts.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
Players planned to canvass their peers scattered across spring training camps, then meet again Wednesday, with the possibility of voting on a new executive director then.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's wardrobe is more than a statement of style; it has become known as a canvass for her political message of advancing women's and Indigenous rights.
From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026
It was also fitting that a playmaker that has created such artistry on the grass canvass has had a huge mural painted of him in Manchester's Northern Quarter.
From BBC • May 20, 2025
The Rembrandt canvas was No. 1 in a Gallup canvass of museumgoers. capital/capitol.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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