as in diatribe
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Still, Hayes, who writes honestly about his experience trying to grab and keep your attention from his job as an MSNBC host, makes a point of saying that this is not a Luddite’s polemic.
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Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 3 Feb. 2025
The novelist uses his ample literary talents to explore what cannot be rendered by polemic: a picture of two people, two lives, caught up in civilizational forces beyond them.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2024
One of the earliest polemics by the notoriously pugilistic cultural critic, who died in 2011, it was originally published in 1987 under the title Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles and reissued once before, in 2008, under its current title.
—Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
The recipe is simple: join social media groups and subscribe to online news sources filled with people who think exactly like you and spend all day in those spaces blasting political polemics into your eyeballs.
—Tracy Hresko Pearl, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2025
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Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 3 Feb. 2025
The novelist uses his ample literary talents to explore what cannot be rendered by polemic: a picture of two people, two lives, caught up in civilizational forces beyond them.
—Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2024
One of the earliest polemics by the notoriously pugilistic cultural critic, who died in 2011, it was originally published in 1987 under the title Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles and reissued once before, in 2008, under its current title.
—Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
The recipe is simple: join social media groups and subscribe to online news sources filled with people who think exactly like you and spend all day in those spaces blasting political polemics into your eyeballs.
—Tracy Hresko Pearl, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polemic
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Tate – who shot to internet fame in recent years, racking up billions of views on TikTok with diatribes about male dominance, female submission and wealth – was banned from almost all social media platforms before Trump’s now adviser Elon Musk took over X and reinstated his account.—
Amy Croffey,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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Instead Adichie makes a hard right turn away from what might be a satisfying engagement with gender and into diatribes about cancel culture and American liberal hypocrisy.—
Sanjena Sathian,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2025
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Many of the artists now topping the charts have come under fierce criticism because their lyrics often paint cartel leaders as Robin Hood-esque figures.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2025
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The emotional stories linked with characters portrayed as cold-blooded killers trained by terrorists have left the film amid wide criticism over its intentions.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Then, in November, Zegler went on a post-presidential election tirade on social media targeting President Donald Trump and his supporters.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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What exactly was Gamergate? On August 16, 2014, a 24-year-old male programmer posted a more than 9,000-word tirade about the dissolution of his relationship with video game developer Zoë Quinn.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN,
23 Mar. 2025
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Key foreign leaders have reaffirmed support for Ukraine after Trump’s public harangue of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last month and taken steps to expand their defense outlays.—
Steve Kopack,
NBC News,
14 Mar. 2025
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The Americans were prepared for a lecture from Russia’s longtime foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, who is well known for his tedious harangues.—
Michael Crowley,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Books, Arts & Manners Books A Hero’s Bargain Brian Stewart In an age when heroism is often seen as a relic of a bygone era, the life and death of Alexei Navalny stands as a challenge and a rebuke to progressive nostrums of the day.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
27 Mar. 2025
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Previous presidents accepted rebukes from the courts on their executive orders, including in the case where the Supreme Court struck down President Harry Truman's attempt to seize steel mills.—
Laura Doan,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Polemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polemic. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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