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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

Yet as Fennell has proven in a slew of interviews about the already polemical film, released Friday, the relationship between Brontë’s Gothic epic and its latest adaptation is more complicated than that.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 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

So much it is necessary to know to understand the minute knowledge of English affairs displayed in his polemical works.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles




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