polemics

Example Sentences

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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

The Mussolini portrait will be taken down "to avoid polemics and manipulations," the industry ministry said in a statement.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2022

I thought that once the heated polemics had cooled, the essential commonality of the struggle would bring us together.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela