as in surveys
a written set of questions that are given to people in order to collect facts or opinions about something
Would you please fill out this questionnaire?
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Recent Examples of questionnaires
The Dallas Morning News sent questionnaires to candidates who provided the answers included here.
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Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
The viral bit last week about essays and questionnaires was perhaps a bit overblown, but there are kernels of truth in there, too.
—Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
Instead, the researchers relied only on studies that used medical records or questionnaires administered or reviewed by a health care provider.
—Aria Bendix, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026
The study, involving 11,000 dementia-free people, required participants to fill out food questionnaires while undergoing cognitive testing.
—Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
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
The team then conducted interviews, collected food diaries, and asked the patients questionnaires to calculate how much of each dairy product people ate per day.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
Patients completed neurological assessments, cognitive tests, and questionnaires about their quality of life.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 18 Dec. 2025
The transcript revealed the majority of questions were about how the prospective jurors answered questionnaires, which were mailed to them weeks earlier and designed to allow both sides to pick an unbiased jury.
—John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 12 Dec. 2025
Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
The viral bit last week about essays and questionnaires was perhaps a bit overblown, but there are kernels of truth in there, too.
—Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
Instead, the researchers relied only on studies that used medical records or questionnaires administered or reviewed by a health care provider.
—Aria Bendix, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026
The study, involving 11,000 dementia-free people, required participants to fill out food questionnaires while undergoing cognitive testing.
—Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
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
The team then conducted interviews, collected food diaries, and asked the patients questionnaires to calculate how much of each dairy product people ate per day.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
Patients completed neurological assessments, cognitive tests, and questionnaires about their quality of life.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 18 Dec. 2025
The transcript revealed the majority of questions were about how the prospective jurors answered questionnaires, which were mailed to them weeks earlier and designed to allow both sides to pick an unbiased jury.
—John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 12 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for questionnaires
surveys
Noun
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To get the monthly employment snapshot, the BLS surveys about 121,000 US employers, accounting for 631,000 work sites (covering more than a quarter of overall employment).—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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For the last decade, wildlife biologists have been using remote cameras and scat surveys to track the movements of the fox in the southern Sierra.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Questionnaires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/questionnaires. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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