interviewer
noun
in·ter·view·er
ˈin-tər-ˌvyü-ər 
plural interviewers
: a person who conducts an interview : one (such as a journalist or prospective employer) who obtains information from another by asking a series of questions
"I never thought I would live to see this day," John Lewis, King's former Selma ally, tells an NPR interviewer on the afternoon of my arrival.—
Dave Gardetta
Dave GardettaThe meeting with the interviewer had lasted 10 minutes. The man did not even open a folder in front of him to study Mr. Rucker's résumé.—Michael Luo
Michael LuoThe next evening, a Libyan state-TV crew came to film us. The segment, in which an interviewer asked us to describe the rebels—I said "happy," Manu said "stoned," and Jim said "ill-equipped"—never aired, probably because our black eyes and bruises wouldn't have played well.—Clare Morgana Gillis
Clare Morgana GillisExamples of interviewer in a Sentence
had no time for an interviewer who wanted to ask me about my phone service
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The recent Oscar-winner seems pitch perfect as the younger version of the Hunger Games’ greatest showman and interviewer.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The surveys were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 1.9 percentage points.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Attacking Todd Grisham On Raw after Cyber Sunday 2006, John Cena, despite being given the night off, appeared and attacked interviewer Todd Grisham.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
The story is told nonlinearly and with a larger narrative framing device in which De Niro as an elderly Costello delivers a documentary-style talking head interview to an unseen interviewer, which serves as the voice-over narration for the film.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2025
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The surveys were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 1.9 percentage points.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Attacking Todd Grisham On Raw after Cyber Sunday 2006, John Cena, despite being given the night off, appeared and attacked interviewer Todd Grisham.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
The story is told nonlinearly and with a larger narrative framing device in which De Niro as an elderly Costello delivers a documentary-style talking head interview to an unseen interviewer, which serves as the voice-over narration for the film.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for interviewer
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“Interviewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interviewer. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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