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also canvasers
as in interviewers
a person who goes around and approaches people with a request for opinions or information
worked as a canvasser for a public interest research group
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Recent Examples of canvassers
The canvassers themselves were also becoming a weapon.
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Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
The canvassers were paid workers, making $25 an hour, three times more than Wisconsin’s minimum wage.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
Allows canvassers to submit signatures under penalty of perjury, eliminating the need for notarization.
—Worth Sparkman, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
Going door to door, the canvassers listened to residents’ concerns, shared their own stories about the impact of climate change and highlighted local environmental successes.
—Anne Toomey, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2025
Property owners can legally place signs on their premises to prohibit unwanted visitors, including solicitors, canvassers and other uninvited guests.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
The organization, called Turnout for America, encouraged donors to fund its $45 million plan for hundreds of canvassers to be deployed in seven swing states, the New York Times reported, citing an internal memo.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
On the Democratic side, the campaign used hundreds of volunteers and paid canvassers, including some who drove from San Francisco and Los Angeles.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Door by door, with the blunt methods of a traditional campaign, canvassers were reëstablishing, very belatedly, a dialogue that had lapsed.
—Julia Preston, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
The canvassers were paid workers, making $25 an hour, three times more than Wisconsin’s minimum wage.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
Allows canvassers to submit signatures under penalty of perjury, eliminating the need for notarization.
—Worth Sparkman, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
Going door to door, the canvassers listened to residents’ concerns, shared their own stories about the impact of climate change and highlighted local environmental successes.
—Anne Toomey, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2025
Property owners can legally place signs on their premises to prohibit unwanted visitors, including solicitors, canvassers and other uninvited guests.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
The organization, called Turnout for America, encouraged donors to fund its $45 million plan for hundreds of canvassers to be deployed in seven swing states, the New York Times reported, citing an internal memo.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
On the Democratic side, the campaign used hundreds of volunteers and paid canvassers, including some who drove from San Francisco and Los Angeles.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Door by door, with the blunt methods of a traditional campaign, canvassers were reëstablishing, very belatedly, a dialogue that had lapsed.
—Julia Preston, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvassers
Noun
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Hiring has rapidly changed since AI agents and interviewers came into the picture.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
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Investigators are working to catalog evidence from the ruins of the church and interviewing dozens of victims and witnesses, with the help of victim specialists, child advocates, forensic interviewers and local partners, according to FBI acting special agent in charge Reuben Coleman.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Bondi arrived armed with personal attacks against individual Democratic senators and lobbed them at her questioners when pressed on a range of topics.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Even some Republicans began warning this summer that letting those tax credits lapse could be detrimental, with Republican pollsters Tony Fabrizio and Bob Ward issuing a memo that cautioned an extension of the credits could make a difference in next year's midterm election.—
Amanda Seitz,
NPR,
7 Oct. 2025
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Other independent pollsters have similarly shown his support among Black voters remains low.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Canvassers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canvassers. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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