survey
verb (used with object)
to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
has surveyed
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present perfectof survey (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Deloitte, which has surveyed Americans’ travel plans since 2021, finds that this year in particular, more people are planning trips of three nights or fewer.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2025
Natalie Brown, who works with the Welsh Institute of Performance Science, has surveyed teachers and pupils about period education in schools.
From BBC ● May 25, 2024
One of the great pleasures of recent seasons, Doppelgänger has surveyed Schubert’s late quartets while commissioning new works that respond to them.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Kim Jones, Bluffton's watershed resilience manager, said the city has surveyed septic systems, looking for failing tanks.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023
Schiller has surveyed the dark Serbonian bog of Infidelity: but he has, made no causeway through it: the Philosophic Letters are a fragment.
From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle
