adjective
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not included in an opinion poll
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not having voted
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not registered for an election
unpolled votes
Etymology
Origin of unpolled
Example Sentences
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And yet, despite all the words expended and polls stumbling over each other to illuminate next to nothing, can’t you feel that there’s something unsaid, something unpolled, something missing?
From Salon
It leant some credence to the campaign’s claims of a silent, unpolled, young majority.
From The Guardian
It was known that four votes only remained unpolled, so that Mottisfont's victory was secure.
From Project Gutenberg
Unpolled, un-pōld′, adj. not polled.
From Project Gutenberg
The Nielsen ratings, by which television programs live or die, have been justly attacked because Nielsen recorders are necessarily hooked to the sets of those viewers willing to have a recorder�a special class by definition, whose tastes may or may not correspond with those of the unpolled millions of the total TV audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
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