divisive
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The former professional kickboxers turned divisive social media influencers hold dual US and British citizenship, and had primarily been living in Romania since 2017.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Student phone use at school has been a divisive issue since the pandemic, but for the first time, more Americans now favor all-day bans than oppose them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Parton’s solo career spanned equally divisive times, launching at the height of the Vietnam War and carrying on for everything that came afterwards.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Katseye has never been bigger or more divisive.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
A researcher I admire, Kelsey Kauffman, has written that “prisons are perhaps the most racially divisive institutions in America today.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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