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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 were paid workers, making $25 an hour, three times more than Wisconsin’s minimum wage.
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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
In the weeks ahead of the election, busloads of Democratic canvassers fanned out across Luzerne County.
—Philip Montgomery, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2024
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
In the weeks ahead of the election, busloads of Democratic canvassers fanned out across Luzerne County.
—Philip Montgomery, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2024
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“Canvassers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canvassers. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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