verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I canvass for the Democrats at election times.
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I spent the whole afternoon canvassing voters.
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Party members were out canvassing as soon as the election was announced.
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Police canvassed the neighborhood but didn't find anyone who knew the man.
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The suggestion is being widely canvassed as a possible solution to the dispute.
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We canvassed over half the constituency by phone or text-message.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In that race, the canvassing board determined that John Hoff defeated write-in candidate Lowell Stevens 265 to 259.
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In the experience of friends who canvass for the Labour party, old, white, middle-class men are the rudest.
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Lord Wilberforce examined the interests which an insurance-broking business might have in preventing an employee canvassing its clients once he had left.
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No one I canvassed had any personal complaint against the National Health Service.
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Session chairpersons were still being canvassed by Douglas during the week before he left.
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The council is canvassing local opinion before deciding next month whether to allow the concert to go ahead.
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This makes it harder to wax indignant at the ideas being canvassed in Washington.