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Recent Examples of polarization
When Nicolás Maduro assumed Venezuela’s presidency in 2013, the country was already deeply unsettled after years of political polarization under Hugo Chávez, marked by shrinking freedoms and violent crackdowns on dissent.
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Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026
Beyond another stoppage To be sure, Logan Capital’s Fitzpatrick believes that polarization’s impact on the market goes past a potential partial shutdown.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 28 Dec. 2025
Lawmakers approved only 61 laws in 2025, reflecting the polarization between the parties, like when only 34 laws were approved in 2023.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
Then there’s just the societal polarization that has intensified in the past decade and has more people on edge and coiled to lash out.
—Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
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Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026
Beyond another stoppage To be sure, Logan Capital’s Fitzpatrick believes that polarization’s impact on the market goes past a potential partial shutdown.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 28 Dec. 2025
Lawmakers approved only 61 laws in 2025, reflecting the polarization between the parties, like when only 34 laws were approved in 2023.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025
Then there’s just the societal polarization that has intensified in the past decade and has more people on edge and coiled to lash out.
—Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polarization
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Alkaline hydrolysis uses water, alkaline chemicals, heat, and sometimes pressure and agitation to accelerate natural decomposition, according to the Cremation Association of North America.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Jan. 2026
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On the property, there were 27 deceased dogs documented since August 1st alone, all in varying stages of decomposition.—
J.D. Miles,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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Plants don’t have lungs, of course, but grapevines do breathe, absorbing oxygen and other atmospheric gases—including smoke—through small pores on the underside of their leaves, or by diffusion across the fruit’s thin, waxy skin.—
Nicola Twilley,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Holes effectively switched partners repeatedly, a process the team calls non-monogamous hole diffusion.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Jan. 2026
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Showing little propulsive momentum at the index level and under the sway of wide dispersion among stocks and sectors, this churning phase has left investor positioning and attitudes shy of dangerous extremes.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2026
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Stable dispersions lasted for up to a month, supported by strong negative zeta potentials in both water and ethanol.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2025
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All that was left was a scattering of blood and a few tufts of fur.—
Susan Koch,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jan. 2026
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This phenomenon happens because blue light undergoes stronger atmospheric scattering than red light, and as a result, red is the most dominant color as sunlight passes through our atmosphere and casts light on the moon.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
31 Dec. 2025
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The problem is the infernal force of atomization that is running all over us.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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Such atomization is a metastasizing problem.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
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The two-lane road is in an unincorporated area of the county south of Granbury, stretching from Glen Rose Highway eastbound through a rural area and into the Canyon Creek subdivision.—
Steven Rosenbaum,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Matthews had worked on other roof replacements in the subdivision.—
J.C. Hallman,
Oklahoma Watch,
13 Jan. 2026
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No global business depends more on fan avidity than sport, where rabid subcultures of tribal commitment often defy traditional customer segmentation.—
Rick Burton,
Sportico.com,
4 Dec. 2025
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Strategically chosen—if sometimes artificial—limits and product segmentation have pride of place in Cupertino’s rulebook.—
Craig Grannell,
Wired News,
2 Dec. 2025
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Less than a month after her husband’s arrest on child rape charges, Sycamore Brewing co-founder Sarah Taylor filed for divorce from Justin Tawse Brigham, her husband of nearly two decades.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Jan. 2026
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And yet, despite the pain of going through a divorce, many women emerge on the other side stronger, happier and more empowered.—
Oona Metz,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Polarization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polarization. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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