as in diatribe
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Recent Examples of polemic
Back across the Atlantic, the very nature of such polemic appears under threat.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polemic
Noun
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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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Bovino, who led much of the immigration enforcement operation in Chicago and the suburbs, as well as in Minnesota before retiring this year amid criticism, declined to appear before the commission.—
Olivia Olander,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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The Irish comedy writer has become better known for his assertion that trans women are men and criticism of trans activism, expressed in often vituperative social media posts.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 May 2026
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Jones rejected his plea deal on July 2, 2024, for being too lenient for stalking and shooting a woman 4-5 times in November 2022, which sparked the tirade, court documents allege.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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Just this insane profanity-laden tirade that went on and on and on.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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Stephen Adly Guirgis, a New York playwright who specializes in urban pressure-cooker dramas, has a gift for writing subway strap-hanger harangues.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 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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That kind of rebuke to the famous couple’s wealth may have come as no surprise.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
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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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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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Not everyone on the right is onboard with the Kimmel castigation.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 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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“Polemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polemic. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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