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Upon starting her new job in June, Yao said she will poll the staff members, her fellow museum directors and other Smithsonian stakeholders for their thoughts on how the women’s museum should forge ahead.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023

Guardino said his group will poll voters in February and again in May or June to get a sense of their appetite for the sales tax and to see what their priorities are.

From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2015

The question of fathers as assets or liabilities aside, the best short-term measure for the effectiveness of the candidates’ launches is how each will poll in weeks to follow.

From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2015

The indefatigable Nate Silver predicts that in 2016, gay marriage will poll below 50 percent in only 17 states, and by 2020, the number will be just six.

From Slate • May 14, 2013

On the day before election it is able always to tell within a fraction the number of votes it will poll.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper