interviewer

noun

in·ter·view·er ˈin-tər-ˌvyü-ər

plural interviewers

: a person who conducts an interview : one (such as a journalist or prospective employer) who obtains information from another by asking a series of questions

"I never thought I would live to see this day," John Lewis, King's former Selma ally, tells an NPR interviewer on the afternoon of my arrival.—

Dave Gardetta

The meeting with the interviewer had lasted 10 minutes. The man did not even open a folder in front of him to study Mr. Rucker's résumé.—

Michael Luo

The next evening, a Libyan state-TV crew came to film us. The segment, in which an interviewer asked us to describe the rebels—I said "happy," Manu said "stoned," and Jim said "ill-equipped"—never aired, probably because our black eyes and bruises wouldn't have played well.—

Clare Morgana Gillis

Examples of interviewer in a Sentence

had no time for an interviewer who wanted to ask me about my phone service

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One curious interviewer asked tight end Russ Francis to describe what soon became known as the West Coast offense. —

Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025 Surveys were either conducted online or by telephone with a live interviewer. —

Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025 At the same time, Lively was freshly criticized for her reaction to an interviewer in a resurfaced 2016 clip. —

Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 After his fourth-round win over Gael Monfils, the interviewer said to Shelton that Monfils could be his father. —

Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for interviewer