How to Use approval rating in a Sentence

approval rating

noun
  • And yet his approval rating is the one thing that is not changing.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The new poll puts his approval rating at 38%, which is roughly where that number has stood for most of the past two years.
    Josh Boak, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • At the start of the pandemic, Fauci was trusted and revered, with a 78% approval rating.
    Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2023
  • That appeal hasn’t seemed to have worked in California, where his approval rating is 31%, the poll found.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Nor has his approach to the conflict moved his overall approval rating.
    Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Bukele’s approval rating, at ninety per cent, is the highest in Latin America and perhaps the world.
    Amada Torruella, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Compare that to the 67% of Black voters who approved of the job the president is doing — far above his overall approval rating of 43%.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The older Sharif has a 36% approval rating among the Pakistanis surveyed.
    TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Biden’s overall job approval rating stood at 41% when the poll was in the field in early October, little changed from his standing throughout the course of the year.
    Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Our poll this morning has Biden's approval rating at 33 percent.
    ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • His handling of the economy is as low as it's been, along with his overall approval rating too, which has been hovering in the low-40s range for more than a year, now down to 40%.
    Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 30 July 2023
  • But that’s still extremely low and below his poor overall 42 percent approval rating in the poll.
    Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • His approval rating, already hovering in the low 40s for two years, dipped even lower in recent weeks.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Utah Governor Spencer Cox says Trump’s legal problems and low approval rating will doom him at the ballot box next year.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • That's lower than his overall approval rating, which stands in the low 40s, according to FiveThirtyEight.
    Laura Gersony, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • That steep drop from members of his own party put his overall approval rating at 37 percent, a drop of four points to match his personal low.
    Matt Viser, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The latest from the campaign trail —What’s behind President Biden’s low approval rating?
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • President Joe Biden’s approval rating has been hovering in the high 30s.
    George Makari, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The current president, a Democrat, struggles in the polls, his approval rating sinking as fuel prices rise.
    Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
  • Polls showed his approval rating climbing, including sentiment on the economy, in a reversal from the start of the year.
    Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The job approval rating for Gantz, Netanyahu’s main opponent, was only slightly higher at 35% in the Channel 12 poll.
    Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 19 May 2024
  • Donald Trump never hit 50% job approval rating as president of the United States.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • His approval rating is stuck below 40%; no president has won a second term from so perilous a starting point.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Despite the state trending Democratic over the past decade, Youngkin has continued to build his approval rating and is one of the most popular governors in years.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2023
  • His approval rating in Russia peaked at twenty per cent, in 2021, shortly after he was poisoned by Kremlin agents.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
  • After weathering that mediocre buzz for more than a month, the film has balanced out at a 58% approval rating from top critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 1 July 2023
  • The governor with the second-lowest approval rating was Democrat Katie Hobbs of Arizona, who had a 47% approval rating, according to the poll.
    Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 25 July 2023
  • Though a July Morning Consult poll pegged Hobbs’s approval rating at only 47 percent, one in 10 voters were still making up their minds about her.
    Kyle Paoletta, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The Biden campaign is likely to lean on Shapiro again as Election Day approaches, as his approval rating is nearly 20 points higher than the president’s.
    Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Biden’s approval rating was just below 42% in late June, according to a FiveThirtyEight polling average.
    Time, 7 July 2023

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