polemic
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Rather than slide into polemic or tragic melodrama, Nguyen leans into the tension between the four half-siblings to unpack the complicated roles that surveillance, big tech and journalism play in our fractured modern state.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025
The term Britpop was coined by journalist Stuart Maconie in a long polemic about the state of guitar music in the April 1993 issue of Select magazine.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2023
What Rufo is talking about is a classic bait-and-switch — cutting and pasting a polemic from one place into another for a strategic advantage.
From Salon • May 30, 2023
Part dogged investigation, part extended polemic, “Picasso the Foreigner” is organized around a provocative claim: Because of his immigrant background, Picasso was continually rejected and marginalized by the French establishment.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023
"Watch that temper, that's discipline, too. Learn to demolish your brotherly opponents with ideas, with polemic skill. The other is for our enemies. Save it for them. And go get some rest."
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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