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Discover LudwigThe phrase "poll the audience" is correct and can be used in written English
It means to ask a group of people for their opinion or response on a particular topic or question. Example: The talk show host paused and turned to the audience, "Let's poll the audience. How many of you believe in aliens?" The majority of the audience raised their hands, surprising the host.
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They poll the audience each night and find that most have come after seeing them in the street.
A TIME-HONORED tradition: Stand outside a movie theater with a camera and microphone and poll the audience members for their reactions.
At the time, I thought that my very ambivalence, my need to "poll the audience" was actually my answer: if I was so unsure, then didn't that tell me all I needed to know?
"With the answer right there in front of you, there's a great temptation to keep going," Davies notes cheerfully, especially because players can reach just once for each of three "lifelines": to poll the audience, to eliminate two of three wrong choices and to confer by phone for 30 seconds with a waiting friend.
I thank the sponsor and introducer, and then I poll the audience on a couple of questions.
We poll the audience and open the line of communication, cultivating a transparent, safe environment for feedback.
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He polled the audience, which said cello.
He polled the audience for their response.
He then polled the audience to see when they viewed the examples as going too far and requiring intervention.
At one point during the show, Ansari began polling the audience, by show of applause, about our romantic lives.
Had she polled the audience to find supporters of fracking, I suspect that nary a hand would have been raised.
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