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interviewer

American  
[in-ter-vyoo-er] / ˈɪn tərˌvju ər /

noun

  • interviewers
    plural
  1. a person who interviews.

  2. a peephole in an entrance door.


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Etymology

Origin of interviewer

First recorded in 1865–70; interview + -er 1

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"Showing that you have taken care of your appearance and have presented yourself in a professional manner is an unconscious signal to the interviewer that you are taking the opportunity seriously," she says.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

In the aforementioned Vogue article, Charli played the interviewer a track called Rock Music, featuring the lyric: "I think the dancefloor is dead, so now we're making rock music".

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Asked by an interviewer which policies he would change as governor, he named none.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

Then one day I had a mentor look me in the eyes as I was training to become a better interviewer and he said, “You don’t want to do this, do you?”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

One of them would later tell an interviewer that in going to Sarajevo “he only wanted to die for his ideals.”

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

The framework for a deal was consummated in a matter of days, Iger told interviewers last week.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

It also hinges on the interviewers, inspectors and epidemiologists willing to track down customers and trace ingredients back through their production and distribution networks.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

This speed comes from what Fontaine calls "parallelisation": instead of human interviewers working one by one, AI agents can conduct many interviews simultaneously.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

Despite the best efforts of interviewers to recast Seattle’s rise as a Sam Darnold redemption arc, he’s refused to make it about himself.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 26, 2026

The other two interviewers had asked a bunch of questions about how he’d handle various repairs of the company’s numberless desktops.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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