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• Canvassers are paid $17 to $19 an hour to knock on doors.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2020
• Then small teams fanned out to knock on doors at the Henderson rental flats.
  — Ee Ming Toh, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2020
• Canvassers fanned out across Columbus to knock on doors.
  — Haley Bemiller, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Their members volunteered to knock on doors and spread the word about the candidates.
  — cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
• In recent weeks, masked volunteers for the Trump campaign have fanned across the state to knock on doors in pursuit of votes.
  — Patrick Condon, Star Tribune, 15 Aug. 2020
• Antique lovers Steve and Shelley Austin often knock on doors to acquire their vintage campers—some of which date back to the 1930s—that have been left in yards to rust.
  — Berne Broudy, Outside Online, 18 May 2015
• In a normal election with no pandemic, the union members would knock on doors and speak with voters.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2020
• Trump, meanwhile, has been hosting large rallies and dispatching troops to knock on doors.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 20 Sep. 2020
• After posing for pictures with the congresswoman, they were bused to Calabasas and Agoura Hills to knock on doors.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• For countless buyers in the area, there aren't many other options left — though Realtors ask that folks don't knock on doors and instead call the number on the for-sale sign.
  — Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021
• In her operation, even the teenagers are paid $15 an hour to knock on doors and distribute literature.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Amazon salespeople have been fanning out to cities across the country to knock on doors, make cold calls, or approach building managers on the street to urge them to install the device.
  — Joseph Pisani, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2021
• Part of that was intentional: the Biden campaign and national Democrats didn't want to knock on doors during a pandemic.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 24 Nov. 2020
• Gomez added that their campaign to knock on doors to have direct conversations with voters made a big difference this year.
  — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• The Dolphin Democrats are like many other political clubs: a source of volunteers, who knock on doors to reach voters and conduct get-out-the-vote efforts.
  — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2022
• Obama, his voice all but shot, barnstormed the snowy state as a fresh wave of volunteers flooded in to knock on doors and staff phones in search of last-minute commitments before caucus day.
  — David Axelrod, CNN, 3 Jan. 2023
• Bass recently opened a campaign headquarters and is having volunteers make calls for her and knock on doors.
  — Benjamin Oreskesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2022
• The scam works like this: Contractors knock on doors offering to inspect homeowners’ roofs for storm damage.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 21 May 2022
• An officer noticed smoke coming from a third-floor unit and began to knock on doors to evacuate residents from the building.
  — cleveland, 5 Aug. 2022
• Republicans in Arizona continue to knock on doors to talk to voters in person.
  — Rachel Leingang, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
• Most restrained from holding in-person events or having campaign workers knock on doors, key aspects that help turn out voters.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2020
• Successful landmen, racing to knock on doors ahead of rivals, earned six-figure incomes.
  — Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
• Traditionally, agents knock on doors, rely on word-of-mouth referrals and make calls to meet potential clients, Mr. Sirosh said.
  — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 22 June 2021
• Children dress as the Holy Family and knock on doors seeking shelter until they are finally welcomed to a table set with small portions of food from the altar.
  — Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• The actor, who grew up in Madison, wanted to do something for Democratic candidates, but couldn’t make campaign appearances or knock on doors.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2020
• The partnership also deploys field staff to knock on doors and interview voters directly.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 20 Feb. 2021
• The sun was setting over the tidy, red brick homes in a Protestant neighborhood outside Belfast when two candidates for Northern Ireland’s legislature came to knock on doors on a recent evening.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
• Change required organizing in our communities to work the phones and knock on doors to elect gun-sense champions to every level of government.
  — Shannon Watts, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2022
• Beginning this weekend, Mr. Biden said, thousands of people will knock on doors and canvass in neighborhoods close to walk-in clinics where people can be vaccinated on the spot.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 2 June 2021
• Newsom joined the Oakland rally as his Republican rivals made their cases up and down the state and both major parties sent volunteers out to knock on doors and urge their supporters to vote.
  — Kathleen Ronayne, ajc, 12 Sep. 2021

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