divisive

Example Sentences

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As Robert Frost might have put it: Something there is that doesn’t love a statue of a divisive leader.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell star in the TV hitmaker’s latest creation, centered on a New York family in Montana, that takes a divisive, broad-strokes approach to its urban-rural conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The result is divisive, to say the least.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

The group most recently reissued its pivotal, if divisive, 1996 album “Load” in a gigantic box set last year.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson