as in divided
to cause (people) to break up into opposing groups
A hot button issue that is sure to polarize the public.
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Recent Examples of polarized
In a world that is polarized, volatile, uncertain, complex and shifting all the time, your leadership can offer a beacon of both continuity and hope.
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Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Brazil is deeply polarized and the trial exacerbated political tensions.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
In a nation already deeply polarized, many Americans fear that the killing of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk could widen divisions across the political landscape and spark further violence.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Confidence in the economy is highly polarized along political lines.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Its light is polarized at an almost impossible level that hints at a perfectly aligned magnetic field.
—New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2025
Many young people feel isolated and lonely in an increasingly online and polarized world and AI companions are a quick fix, explains James Sherer, MD, a psychiatrist and deputy chief medical officer at Hackensack Meridian Carrier Clinic.
—Sherri Gordon, Parents, 18 Aug. 2025
Those who say our politics are too polarized to create these kinds of margins are wrong.
—Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2025
In places where elections are racially polarized, that kind of voting system can result in a white majority's votes drowning out the ballots of voters of color, courts have found.
—Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Brazil is deeply polarized and the trial exacerbated political tensions.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
In a nation already deeply polarized, many Americans fear that the killing of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk could widen divisions across the political landscape and spark further violence.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Confidence in the economy is highly polarized along political lines.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Its light is polarized at an almost impossible level that hints at a perfectly aligned magnetic field.
—New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2025
Many young people feel isolated and lonely in an increasingly online and polarized world and AI companions are a quick fix, explains James Sherer, MD, a psychiatrist and deputy chief medical officer at Hackensack Meridian Carrier Clinic.
—Sherri Gordon, Parents, 18 Aug. 2025
Those who say our politics are too polarized to create these kinds of margins are wrong.
—Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2025
In places where elections are racially polarized, that kind of voting system can result in a white majority's votes drowning out the ballots of voters of color, courts have found.
—Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for polarized
divided
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According to convention, all money is divided into M0 (the monetary base), M1 which includes M0 and on demand bank deposits and M2 which includes M1 and money market funds and timed deposits such as CDs.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The site consists primarily of 10,900 square feet of office spaces that can be divided into as many as four office suites, according to a marketing brochure that Cushman & Wakefield, a commercial real estate firm, had circulated.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Polarized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polarized. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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