How to Use polarization in a Sentence

polarization

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  • 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
  • For me, there’s a polarization, which always had a sense of theater.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Our country is in a state of severe polarization: red and blue.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 July 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
  • The key turned out to be combining that method with observing the polarization of these fields.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the other end of the spectrum, teams can be triggered into polarization.
    — Edward Sullivan, Fortune, 28 June 2022
  • 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 his essay, Bill Gates wrote that polarization in the United States makes battling global crises tougher.
    — Glenn Gamboa, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • The sensor resistance tells us how much power the field contains, and the power tells us its polarization.
    — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Gulsen apologized for the offense the joke caused but said her comments were seized on by those wanting to deepen polarization in the country.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Choosing to self-segregate opens the door open to polarization.
    — Helen Lee Bouygues, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The lack of transparency and the way in which the government is flaunting its arrests is giving rise to further polarization.
    — Caterina Morbiato, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2022
  • That polarization has led people to shift their support for the court based on their perceptions of the court’s partisan leanings.
    — Jessica A. Schoenherr, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Paula Suárez, 29, a doctor and left-wing candidate for local office in Barcelona with the Sumar coalition, said the polarization in the country was entrenched.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 22 July 2023
  • In a time of political polarization and war, are some things off-limits?
    — George Gurley, New York Times, 21 June 2024
  • The goal was to use data on the polarization of light around a black hole that was captured using the EHT to determine if a black hole was a traversable wormhole or not.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Researchers say the result of this growing polarization is clear: The nation’s overall health profile is going from bad to worse.
    — Akilah Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Coming up, after some extreme weather across the country, a closer look at the roots of polarization over climate change.
    — ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • For a Brit, Wolf has a respectable grasp of the arc of modern American politics and the source of the polarization and dysfunction that now grip its capital.
    — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Francis’s nearly 10 years as pope have been defined by opposition and deepened polarization — not just with rank-and-file Catholics, but with those in the highest ranks of the church.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Straight ticket voting was common in the U.S. during the 1960s, but more states are doing away with it even as partisan polarization is near all-time highs.
    — al, 9 Oct. 2022
  • This polarization has in some ways overshadowed the excitement of the prospect of electing the country’s first female leader.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2024
  • This intense polarization — Awami League versus everyone else — is part of the reason for the protests.
    — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Watching the ‘turmoil’ As the campaigns unfolded over recent months, Beijing’s state media has honed in on social discord and polarization in the US.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Both sides have good arguments, but trying to see if there's any way to compromise is something that is just impossible at the moment because of the polarization.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024

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