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verb

as in to survey
to go around and approach (people) with a request for opinions or information a reporter at the scene interviewing witnesses to the explosion

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Recent Examples of interview
Noun
With Shaquille O’Neal, Pat Riley went to Los Angeles for what the Lakers thought would be a job interview and instead planted the seeds for the Shaquille O’Neal trade. Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 May 2026 Hilary Duff takes center stage for her interview during SiriusXM's Small Stage Series in Los Angeles on May 14. People Staff, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
Verb
Separately, several Spirit workers interviewed by the Herald since May 2 have backed up that assessment. Miami Herald, 14 May 2026 The two cleanup workers who were interviewed worked for subcontractors, and both said the directives about what to remove and what to leave behind changed frequently. Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 14 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for interview
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interview
Noun
  • L’Equipe reported last week that Marseille’s staff were running out of patience with him and that Beye had interrupted a training session in frustration after the 24-year-old ignored his instructions.
    Tom Williams, New York Times, 17 May 2026
  • Now, in the session’s aftermath, businesses in the state say the session ultimately produced mixed results.
    P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2026
Verb
  • To determine the honorees, the California State Parks Foundation surveyed more than 2,000 members, supporters and the public, and asked them to vote for their favorite parks for 12 categories.
    Alexiah Syrai Olsen, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2026
  • That’s slightly more than the 207,000 new applications analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet had forecast.
    Matt Ott, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • The backstory South America’s largest city sprawls as far as the eye can see with towers and highways, which explains how this part of town (not the most central) has become a hub for meetings.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026
  • Trump’s meetings with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, began at the Great Hall of the People moments after a welcome ceremony that seemed to impress the president, featuring a Chinese military honor guard and a greeting from excited schoolchildren.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • His grandson, Jack Schlossberg, who is running for Congress, never hesitates to remind audiences of his lineage.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
  • One decade into hosting the popular competition show, Probst became disillusioned by the audience's desire to revel in conflict.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • He was eventually acquitted on the grounds that the real-life incident that inspired the film, which a student in one of his film workshops turned into a documentary, was in the pubic domain.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 16 May 2026
  • Elsewhere on the property, additional structures could become an artist’s studio, workshop or hobby space depending on the family dynamics at play.
    Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • One bill that repeatedly came up in conversation was Senate Bill 2, a priority bill for Senate Democrats that would have changed the state’s sales-and-use tax, allowing some energy use by businesses to be exempt from the tax.
    P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2026
  • Mercury enters Gemini and moves through your 3rd House of Communication, waking up conversations, messages, and the small decisions that shape your day.
    Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • Attendance at this year’s show is up about 5% from last year, according to Cinema United, the trade group that organizes the four-day convocation of thousands of movie theater owners, studio executives and industry folks at Caesars Palace.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • On March 5, Washington Square News editor Leena Ahmed broke the story that NYU has canceled all live student graduation speakers for all of its upcoming commencement and convocation ceremonies this spring.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026

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