polemical
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As PJ, Culp gruffly embraces his role as the play’s polemical fire-starter.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
In any case Ms. Majok, herself Polish-born and a Pulitzer Prize winner for “Cost of Living,” is not a polemical writer, even if the play occasionally touches on the specifics of immigration policy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 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
“Minx” introduced Joyce as an idealistic Vassar grad pitching her mock-up for a polemical journal, The Matriarchy Awakens.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023
He wrote hurriedly, with a polemical object in view, and paid no attention to style.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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