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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polemics
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Trump’s social media feed and rhetoric overflow with racist diatribes.
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Academics in particular knew the impact of his anti-college diatribes, demonizing of university professors, and literal targeting of them with Professor Watchlist.
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Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee once put it this way about why some golfer tirades add character while others are despised.
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Lion was taken into custody early Saturday morning in the Palisades after what a neighbor described as antisemitic tirades.
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The negative shift in 'cynicism's' meaning is largely attributed to the historical lens of Plato's criticisms, as Antisthenes' own writings are scarce.
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But advocates for survivors say there’s ample evidence of failures at high levels, even beyond Guidepost's criticisms of the Executive Committee.
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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.
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Links with nonprofit group The recent castigations from progressive Democrats were driven in part by the Opportunity Caucus’s ties to One Main Street.
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Like legions of dreamers before him, McGuirk started on film and TV sets as a PA, an often thankless job where random castigations from members of the cast or crew can be par for the course.
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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.
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“Polemics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polemics. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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