controversial
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Controversial comments around quality control that he made in a 2013 television interview led him to apologize and step down from his chairman position later that year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
Controversial online fast-fashion seller Shein will open its first bricks and mortar store in the world in Paris next week, its new landlord announced Friday.
From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025
Music: Controversial manager succumbs to complications of stroke.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025
Controversial newsmakers—Monica Lewinsky, Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt among them—had the term pinioned to them like a scarlet letter, stripping away their accomplishments and leaving only scorned husks of their real selves.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025
A letter has been sent from the Secretary of the Ipswich Mechanics’ Institution asking me to Lecture—any subject but Party Politics or Controversial Divinity.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis
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Against All Odds: Contra and Counter
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Nothing But the Truth
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