How to Use polarization in a Sentence

polarization

noun
  • The events of the last few days have only added to the sense of polarization in Pakistani society.
    Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
  • Look what that gentleman did to this country and the polarization – got all the cockroaches to rise to the top.
    Steve Appleford, SPIN, 26 May 2022
  • Her first taste of politics came as a response to polarization on the other side of the aisle.
    James Anderson and Nicholas Riccardi, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
  • For me, there’s a polarization, which always had a sense of theater.
    Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The last year has shown a spotlight on the stark polarization in America.
    Andrew Marquardt, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The astronomers behind the project say the images are the first time astronomers have been able to capture and map polarization so close to a black hole.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
  • For some Ohio families, the polarization of the last few years didn't end with the swearing-in of a new president this year.
    Carl Weiser, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Our country is in a state of severe polarization: red and blue.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 July 2022
  • Keep in mind that polarization is not the same as UV protection.
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 17 May 2022
  • For more on the poll’s findings on polarization, views of the future, and top concerns, check out this story.
    Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • But this time a record number of seats – more than 300 – produced a three-way run-off, in a measure of France’s polarization.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 7 July 2024
  • In a moment of national polarization, the stakes of the ballot box rose overnight.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 22 June 2022
  • Leo said in a 2023 interview with Vatican News that the polarization in the church was a wound that needed to be healed.
    Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • The key turned out to be combining that method with observing the polarization of these fields.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
  • And right now, in an era of pandemic and polarization, Americans have — and need — a lot of dreams.
    orlandosentinel.com, 7 Mar. 2021
  • And right now, in an era of pandemic and polarization, Americans have — and need — a lot of dreams.
    Tamara Lush, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2021
  • And right now, in an era of pandemic and polarization, Americans have — and need — a lot of dreams.
    Tamara Lush, Star Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021
  • This is the polarization stage many of us are stuck in right now, also called othering.
    Julie Kratz, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The 'polar' in 'polarization' is from Latin 'polaris,' which describes the Earth's poles.
    Brenda Looper, arkansasonline.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Most of all, there’s a sense of Houser’s own wide-eyed dismay at the polarization of talk radio and cable news.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
  • So far, the court has avoided the extreme polarization of Congress.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021
  • The polarization of cultures is most evident within small and mid-cap PE firms, where women thrive 50% of the time.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 June 2024
  • Yet this polarization is just what Netanyahu needs right now.
    Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 13 May 2021
  • At the other end of the spectrum, teams can be triggered into polarization.
    Edward Sullivan, Fortune, 28 June 2022
  • No other legal case presents such a vivid metaphor for the country’s polarization.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
  • The polarization has always been there, the difference is scale.
    Paul Talbot, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • But like much of the West, the country may be entering a new era of polarization and more bitter politics.
    Catarina Fernandes Martins, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In other words, the system's tilt away from unified control is now both a cause and effect of polarization.
    Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
  • That's what drives ideological polarization, not necessarily the type of primaries states have, Shufeldt said.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • That isn’t surprising: America has been gradually polarizing since the 1980s as well, and the changes in news media coverage reflect that polarization.
    Christopher Krewson, The Conversation, 17 July 2025

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