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poll

[pohl] / poʊl /
NOUN
census; tally of answers to questions of opinion
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According to a poll published Sunday by CBS, 64 percent of respondents expect artificial intelligence to reduce the number of jobs in the United States.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

Poll after poll indicates that Republicans are suffering from an enthusiasm gap.

From Slate Sep. 12, 2026

According to a 2025 poll, 37% of American Jews identify as Zionist, 7% as anti-Zionist and 8% as non-Zionist; 48% identified with none of those labels.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

A Suffolk University poll of Boston residents found 83% were somewhat or very concerned about electricity costs.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

Somebody had conducted a preliminary poll that seemed to suggest maybe he could win.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

But the latest polls for a second round on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

It would also rate USC higher in stature as well as in polls and championship considerations.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

By then she was one of Italy's best-known female politicians and was running high in opinion polls -- with 43 percent, second only to then prime minister Paolo Gentiloni.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Defense might be the wrong word in Georgia, where polls show freshman Sen. Jon Ossoff handily beating a Republican challenger who keeps some questionable company.

From Slate Sep. 10, 2026

Although the polls showed the ANC with a healthy margin, we never took victory for granted.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

For example, economists polled in the Philadelphia Fed’s Livingston Survey, published in December 2007 as the recession began, projected that the economy would keep expanding through 2008, and put unemployment at 4.9% for 2009.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Americans appear increasingly alarmed by the technology,with 7 in 10 polled in March opposing local construction of data centers that power AI technology, according to a Gallup survey.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

Deutsche Bank’s chief economist Mark Wall and colleague Michael Kirker polled clients ahead of Wednesday’s meeting to find out how they thought things would go.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

Analysts polled by FactSet, on average, are expecting adjusted profits of 81 cents a share for the third quarter and $3.30 a share for the year.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

I polled about half of the companies on the Fortune 500 list—the list of the largest corporations in the United States—asking each company questions about its CEO.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The key point coming out of RMG’s most recent polling on that question?

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

We are not trying to replace evidence with polling, nor to treat majority opinion as truth.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

An informal polling of the researchers interviewed for this article found that, yes, cat parents are likely to return the meows of their feline.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

“You can’t enter or exit that complex without passing a Flock camera, and that’s also my polling place, so that really gave me a strong reaction,” Foust said.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

The Voting Rights Act also allowed federal observers to review voter qualifications and monitor polling places.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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