How to Use exit poll in a Sentence

exit poll

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  • The venue falls silent before the exit poll results come through.
    — Astha Rajvanshi/london, TIME, 5 July 2024
  • That figure matched the results of NBC News exit polls.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • An exit poll is scheduled to be published at 10 p.m., suggesting winners in key races.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 4 July 2024
  • Another exit poll based on more data was to be published later Sunday with a tighter margin of error.
    — Vanessa Geraand Monika Scislowska, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2020
  • At the same time, Biden's net approval rating in the exit poll was +23 points.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Here are the results, biggest takeaways and what exit polls showed.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Here are the results, biggest takeaways and what exit polls showed, and key election dates and events.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • That's a record-high turnout among liberals in Ohio exit polls dating back to 1984.
    — Christine Filer, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The problem for Biden is that the exit poll indicates clear leakage in his support from a year ago.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Trump was winning about one-third of that group, an improvement over his 28% showing in the exit poll four years ago.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Those findings align with the results of exit polls from elections since the Dobbs decision in 2022.
    — Sarah McCammon, NPR, 2 May 2024
  • Moreover, more than two-thirds of voters said democracy in the U.S. is threatened, the exit poll found.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • In a sense, the 2020 exit poll was just another pre-election survey.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The exit poll puts his job approval rating at 44 percent.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 9 Nov. 2022
  • If the exit poll comes true, the win for Labour will be almost as large as Tony Blair’s momentous 1997 victory.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 July 2024
  • In France, the far-right candidate for EU parliament won 31.5% of the vote, according to exit polls.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
  • One exit poll found that the virus was the most important issue guiding more than 40 percent of voters.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Forty-one percent of voters in the exit poll said that only Biden had the mental and physical health to serve as president.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • At the Social Democrats’ headquarters in Berlin, the crowd cheered as a second initial exit poll showed the party narrowly ahead.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The national exit poll from 2022 helps explain why that midterm election was a disappointing year for the GOP.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 June 2024
  • According to the exit poll in the Senate race, Democrats won women by 9 but lost men by 11, suggesting their weakness with men cost them in that contest.
    — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Trump bested Haley among these groups in contest so far where exit polls have been conducted.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In addition, exit polls were banned and the PTI complained that their agents were barred from monitoring polling stations.
    — TIME, 9 Feb. 2024
  • True, 31 percent of voters named inflation the most important issue in the exit poll.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 9 Nov. 2022
  • But the folks moving to Texas have so far leaned Republican, according to exit poll data.
    — Catarina Saraiva, Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • To get there, Warnock got 90 percent of support among Black voters, according to exit polls, and 93 percent of Black women voters.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
  • To avoid a June runoff, a candidate would need more than 50% of the votes, and an exit poll indicated the leading candidate would get only about 16% support.
    — Star Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
  • No wonder 64 percent of Virginia voters, according to the Fox News exit poll, said the country was headed in the wrong direction.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Ticket buyers gave each film an A grade in CinemaScore exit polls.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • Health care was voters’ second priority in the exit poll.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 May 2021

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