How to Use exit poll in a Sentence

exit poll

noun
  • At the same time, Biden's net approval rating in the exit poll was +23 points.
    Harry Enten, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The clock ticked toward 10 p.m., when the first exit polls would be announced.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
  • The venue falls silent before the exit poll results come through.
    Astha Rajvanshi/london, TIME, 5 July 2024
  • An exit poll showed that 60% of black voters chose Biden.
    Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 29 Feb. 2020
  • That figure matched the results of NBC News exit polls.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • African Americans were the only racial group Biden won, the exit polls show.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The results were closely in line with a major exit poll.
    Yuras Karmanau, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2019
  • Compare that to exit polls four years ago that showed Sanders winning among whites 56%-42%.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2020
  • As the exit polls from the first round of the Tunisian presidential election emerged, a video from 2013 went viral.
    1843, 18 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Networks quoted exit polls that showed two-thirds of voters had made up their minds more than a month ago.
    David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 7 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • But pre-debate and exit polls at the time suggest Mr. Clinton would have won with or without Mr. Perot in the race.
    Eliza Collins, WSJ, 10 July 2019
  • 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
  • The exit poll had a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The 1998 exit polls, though, told a different and more boring story.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
  • 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
  • The question wasn’t asked in the fourth state with exit polls today, Mississippi.
    Ella Torres, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • In Mississippi, Biden claimed an 84% share of the black vote, according to exit polls.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The exit poll, conducted by the research firm Ipsos, projected that Law and Justice won 43.6% of the votes.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Trump’s efforts to win more Latino voters could be a major dynamic here, so watch for exit polls.
    Joe Walsh, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Screen Engine/PostTrak exit polls are strong with 5 out of 5 stars and a 75% definite recommend.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024

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