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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
Meanwhile, Reuters reports America PAC has struggled to meet its lofty goals, as its canvassers fan out across the swing states and knock on scores of donors’ doors in the election’s closing weeks.
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Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Political signs are up, canvassers are hitting the streets and early ballots are going out to voters statewide.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2024
And yet Friel Otten told me that canvassers going door to door on behalf of her campaign reported contact rates of twenty-nine per cent, which far surpassed national averages of fifteen to twenty per cent.
—Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
In Michigan, two members of a county board of canvassers in the Upper Peninsula didn't believe three recall elections all could have had a similar margin.
—Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
Leslie Charles, who led the canvassers, expected many more cars to show up, but the team had three more go-go clubs to hit later that early morning.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
As canvassers continued to fill the bar, Chris Love, the Arizona for Abortion Access spokesperson, lifted her braids from her neck, then dabbed at her forehead with a towel.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
For all the excitement that Cherry and the other canvassers sensed, plenty of working-class Philadelphians had reservations about Harris.
—Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Political signs are up, canvassers are hitting the streets and early ballots are going out to voters statewide.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2024
And yet Friel Otten told me that canvassers going door to door on behalf of her campaign reported contact rates of twenty-nine per cent, which far surpassed national averages of fifteen to twenty per cent.
—Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
In Michigan, two members of a county board of canvassers in the Upper Peninsula didn't believe three recall elections all could have had a similar margin.
—Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
Leslie Charles, who led the canvassers, expected many more cars to show up, but the team had three more go-go clubs to hit later that early morning.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
As canvassers continued to fill the bar, Chris Love, the Arizona for Abortion Access spokesperson, lifted her braids from her neck, then dabbed at her forehead with a towel.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
For all the excitement that Cherry and the other canvassers sensed, plenty of working-class Philadelphians had reservations about Harris.
—Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Canvassers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canvassers. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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