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polemics

[puh-lem-iks, poh-] / pəˈlɛm ɪks, poʊ- /




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What Mr. Restall means is that the great explorer is still at the center of a swarm of unresolved polemics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Apart from fierce polemics, the election has generated widespread confusion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025

One of the more recent and ballyhooed polemics against Roosevelt was "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression," a 2007 bestseller by Amity Shlaes.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023

You could ask your friend to keep in touch, but not to send you polemics.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

As the delay suggests, polemics for the Noble Savage tended to meet with little sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann