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polarization

[poh-ler-uh-zay-shuhn] / ˌpoʊ lər əˈzeɪ ʃən /


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This story offered me an opportunity to talk about polarization, and about the culture clash that happens when people with such different views meet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

Voters resonated with messaging like Talarico's "politics of love" at a time of increased polarization and revulsion at heavyhanded immigration-enforcement tactics.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Their atomic structure is made up of repeating units in which positive and negative charges are positioned on opposite sides, creating a property known as electrical polarization.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

The latest evidence comes from a fascinating new research study, which shows how nearly 3 million American workers have navigated the perilous polarization and “hashtag hell” of the past decade.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

However, a new uOttawa study disproves this theory and shows that amorphous solids actually exhibit dichroism, meaning that they selectively absorb light of different polarizations.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

“It may create a divide between the transitional government and the public. We are looking for a decent discussion based on the interests of Sudan without any polarizations or accusations.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2020

“It would indeed be interesting if they could swap their polarizations without ever interacting,” he adds.

From Scientific American ● May 6, 2019

When the pulses first leave the interferometer, they have different polarizations.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 27, 2017

Heat, light, electricity, magnetism, are by some regarded as specific fluids; by others, as undulations of one or more specific fluid; and by a third class, as undulations or polarizations of ordinary matter.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various


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