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polemical

[puh-lem-ik-uhl, poh-lem-ik-uhl] / pəˈlɛm ɪk əl, poʊˈlɛm ɪk əl /


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His public projects are populist but not polemical, utopian but not ideological.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

It wasn’t his now-ubiquitous polemical flourish, or even what that implied about his approach to governing.

From Salon • May 18, 2025

At the same time, groups that feel like they’re under attack will look for their own messengers to deliver polemical responses which reject every criticism and assign blame somewhere else; this is what “stanning” is.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2024

Through Sinclair, a socialist firebrand best known for his polemical 1906 novel, “The Jungle,” Kiesling found a way into writing an individual story through a global lens.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2023

After much pleasant talk with the enthusiastic young student, to which Edith listened with deep interest, Mr. Grafton was tasked to his utmost polemical and theological knowledge by the searching questions of the old Puritan.

From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Lee, Eliza Buckminster




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