polemical
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A productive historian and polemical journalist, Hobsbawm rarely used archival research, but he knew European history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
At the period, however, when the Western monasteries began to discharge their intellectual functions, the supremacy of Catholicism was nearly established, and polemical ardour had begun to wane.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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