How to Use pollster in a Sentence

pollster

noun
  • If the pollsters and the markets turn out to be wrong, the pound has a long way to fall.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • And even when a race is too close to call, a public pollster has to call it.
    — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Also, both of the pollsters cited above have whiffed in past races.
    — Philip Klein, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Ben Tulchin, Sanders’ pollster, said such moves do not go far enough.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Then the pollster asked an open-ended question of the rest: If not Trump, then who?
    — Aaron Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Were the Dolphins running it up to impress the AP pollsters?
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Since 1996, Penn was the longtime pollster to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Bookies and pollsters rank Mr. Sunak as a long shot to stay in power.
    — Jill Lawless and Brian Melley, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • Vince Breglio, a pollster for the Reagan campaign, didn’t buy it.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Pundits and pollsters wondered: How could the polls have been so wrong?
    — Marcus Woo, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2019
  • One pollster that seemed to have its fingers on the pulse of the election in 2016 swing states was Trafalgar Group.
    — Michael Lee, Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2020
  • In need of a shot of momentum, Bass’ campaign team had their pollster, David Binder, write a memo about the state of the race.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Still, Franklin, the Marquette pollster, noted the influence of the top of the ticket.
    — Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • Siena pollsters did not ask New Yorkers their opinion on Trump’s move to end the toll.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But the takeaway for Ragnar’s pollster, Chris Perkins, is clear.
    — Marc Caputo, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The race is getting tighter: Biden was found ahead by 12 percentage points by the same pollster in June.
    — Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The campaign brought the problem to the attention of the pollster and its media partners.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Klain told the pollster that the White House was aware of it and had been taking it seriously for months.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Our pollsters looked at this right before the election.
    — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The share who go to church every Sunday is a lot lower: some pollsters put it at 20%.
    — The Economist, 23 May 2020
  • And for even more, see this presentation from the pollsters who conduct the NBC News poll.
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 16 June 2023
  • That may be the case in polls conducted by phone, in which the pollster can hear a person’s response.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The share of Americans who believe the lab theory has held steady since June 2021, the pollster said.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Indeed, in the run-up to this shutdown, pollsters have seemed less interested in the topic than in the past.
    — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • There is a sense that Trump has momentum, but pollster John Zogby warned not to bank on that.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
  • And Schumer would tell Biden that his own pollster gave him only a 5 percent chance of beating Trump.
    — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
  • His wildly out-of-the-mainstream call is sure to shock pollsters, pundits and Fortune‘s readers alike.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Wells' campaign put out a poll conducted by a Biden pollster that found a much tighter race.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But pollsters say Canadians' anger at Trump plays to Carney, and Trump last week doubled down on his comments.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Now, with an election set for Monday, April 28, pollsters are saying the Conservatives have lost too much ground to make up.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2025

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