survey
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Savvy's latest survey of shoppers also found that 66% of Gen Y/Z shoppers said seeing products sell out or go viral made them more likely to buy.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Still, a 2023 survey found that 98% of defectors said they had watched South Korean dramas or films back home.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The quake had a depth of a 9.2 miles, the survey said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Joanne Hsu, the director of the Michigan survey, said the index’s gains could prove short lived if gasoline stays expensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
This “fixed-station” survey method was an accurate way to map the river, but it was time-consuming.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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One problem with all these efforts to mitigate old-age loneliness, Schiller notes, is that the loneliest generation is actually Gen Z. And the loneliness surveys themselves, she suggests, may be suspect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Low Flight, published in 2024, is a collection of poems inspired by interviews and surveys that Wang conducted with around 200 delivery riders.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
French monthly business surveys for July are due Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Japan's parliament tweaked the imperial succession law on Friday but maintained the bar on women emperors -- despite surveys suggesting wide public support for the idea.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Our own surveys said at least fifty percent of the student body watched any given show.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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According to new research from retail agency Savvy Marketing, 30% of shoppers surveyed said they'd bought something from a live shopping event.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Among developers at small startups surveyed by the industry newsletter The Pragmatic Engineer, 75 percent reported using Claude Code.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Half the people surveyed link retirement spending to “uncertainty,” and 44% to “anxiety.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
One exception to this pattern was Singapore, which had the highest GDP per capita of the countries surveyed and a high level of positivity towards China.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Finding there were no more steps to climb, Captain Cook turned around and surveyed the steps that now went down.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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This image is part of a Hubble Treasury program that is surveying approximately half of the Milky Way's known globular clusters.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Thanks to their late father’s surveying compass, however, George gains an important skill in charting the land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
"When I opened it in the seventies, I was still a young man... now nothing is left," he said, leaning heavily on a walking stick and surveying the vast destruction.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
However security is handled, there will be no ICE officers surveying the crowd with facial-recognition software and abducting people for unstated reasons.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Surveyor at work: Teenager George Washington holds a surveying tool while a helper lets out distance-measuring chain and a slave looks on.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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