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Recent Examples of polemic Back across the Atlantic, the very nature of such polemic appears under threat. —
Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025 Films of striking social relevance that never fall to polemic or sensationalism, but instead so trustingly fulfill their characters’ plight and courage. —Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025 The festival’s other major eat-the-rich polemic is, in the grand scheme of Yorgos Lanthimos’s oeuvre, a minor work, to be sure, but still a riveting, twisty, and raucously funny one. —Radhika Seth, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025 The book influencer who is terrified that Zohran Mamdani is going to usher in a new wave of antisemitism to New York City and the world is not going to be the target audience for Omar El Akkad’s essential polemic One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and that’s okay. —Maris Kreizman august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for polemic
Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025 Films of striking social relevance that never fall to polemic or sensationalism, but instead so trustingly fulfill their characters’ plight and courage. —Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025 The festival’s other major eat-the-rich polemic is, in the grand scheme of Yorgos Lanthimos’s oeuvre, a minor work, to be sure, but still a riveting, twisty, and raucously funny one. —Radhika Seth, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025 The book influencer who is terrified that Zohran Mamdani is going to usher in a new wave of antisemitism to New York City and the world is not going to be the target audience for Omar El Akkad’s essential polemic One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and that’s okay. —Maris Kreizman august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for polemic
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Moreno-Gama was arrested Friday morning by San Francisco police officers, who recovered a copy of his anti-AI diatribe, a kerosene jug and a lighter, according to the criminal complaint.— Jared Perlo, NBC news, 13 Apr. 2026
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Just a few days before McQueen’s historic nomination, Andrew Holness, the country’s Prime Minister, was condemned by local human rights groups for bookending his 2026 budget presentation with a transphobic diatribe.— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2026
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His first collection, Death of a Naturalist, was published by Faber and Faber in 1966 and was followed by eleven other volumes of poetry, as well as collections of literary criticism, anthologies, translations, and verse plays.— Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
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With Minnesota viewing them as soft, the Nuggets hardly seem bothered by the criticism.— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
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Trump unleashed a tirade against Pope Leo XIV after the pope delivered an antiwar message, leading John Dolan, the bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, to come to the pope’s defense.— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 17 Apr. 2026
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Ring doorbell captures suspect demanding to know 'where's your daughter' in wild tirade.— , FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
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Indeed, Trump’s plan conforms more to the he-man approach to defense policy, exemplified by Hegseth’s harangues to Pentagon officers and service members, than to any sober assessment of military needs.— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
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Disney and Paramount Global both kowtowed to weak suits from President Donald Trump agreeing to pay settlements of $15 million and $16 million, respectively, to make the legal harangues go away rather than fighting for ABC News and CBS News.— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 Aug. 2025
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The Latest Estonia’s government criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over his warning that Russia could be preparing to attack the Baltic states, a rare rebuke from one of Kyiv’s staunchest allies.— Suzanne Lynch, Bloomberg, 21 Apr. 2026
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Potential punishments included a reprimand or a censure, which serve as forms of public rebuke.— Kevin Freking, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
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If Trump is at all interested in avoiding further excoriation at home, brevity must be his priority.— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
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There’ve been the usual marches around the country, signs, excoriations from members of Congress, all under the same umbrella of resistance.— Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
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The standoff centered on the now-former assistant attorney general’s public and internal castigation of pediatric gender medicine.— Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 31 Jan. 2026
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His reverence for hip-hop led to a poignant self-reflection on whether his new approach would be the subject of castigation among the hip-hop faithful.— Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
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“Polemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/polemic. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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