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polemic

[puh-lem-ik, poh-] / pəˈlɛm ɪk, poʊ- /




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We care about his long-ago polemic because of the ideas he embedded in it and the force with which he expressed them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

But this is a work of history, not a polemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

His Glastonbury set opened with the angry, antagonistic Hate, followed quickly by Plastic, a polemic about the seductive but reductive allure of consumer culture.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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

It’s as if Rogelio’s response has justified every polemic.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

"A Kingdom that counters polemics and resignation through friendship and a culture of encounter. Let us believe once again in love, moderation and good politics."

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

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

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

She called the polemics a "frankly very minor issue in terms of international politics".

From Reuters ● Feb. 10, 2023

As the delay suggests, polemics for the Noble Savage tended to meet with little sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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