questionnaire
noun
ques·tion·naire
ˌkwes-chə-ˈner 
ˌkwesh-
1
: a set of questions for obtaining statistically useful or personal information from individuals
2
: a written or printed questionnaire often with spaces for answers
3
: a survey made by the use of a questionnaire
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Not all subjects completed the comfort questionnaire, so in the end there was data from 527 runners.
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Outside, 30 Dec. 2025
Methodologically, the piece leans on a few entry points (one large Discord server; a prominent guide, by the username Gooncultist; a questionnaire) and in doing so, overweights the gooning scene’s performative edge.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Clonan, who teaches young dental students, now suggests dentists add questions about marijuana use to the medical questionnaires that patients fill out during intake.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 29 Dec. 2025
Researchers used the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) questionnaire to see how many of the women in the study had dry eye disease; about 57% of menopausal women surveyed had dry eye disease while about 53% of premenopausal women did.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 22 Dec. 2025
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Outside, 30 Dec. 2025
Methodologically, the piece leans on a few entry points (one large Discord server; a prominent guide, by the username Gooncultist; a questionnaire) and in doing so, overweights the gooning scene’s performative edge.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Clonan, who teaches young dental students, now suggests dentists add questions about marijuana use to the medical questionnaires that patients fill out during intake.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 29 Dec. 2025
Researchers used the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) questionnaire to see how many of the women in the study had dry eye disease; about 57% of menopausal women surveyed had dry eye disease while about 53% of premenopausal women did.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 22 Dec. 2025
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questionnaire
noun
ques·tion·naire
ˌkwes-chə-ˈna(ə)r
-ˈne(ə)r
: a set of questions to be asked of a number of persons usually in order to gather information (as on opinions)
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