polarizing
adjective
tending to divide people into sharply opposing factions.
polarising
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a variation of
polarizing.
Example Sentences
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Grier said that singing the Canadian anthem tonight is "not that polarising of a thing".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Navigating a career-threatening doping case, surviving the ferocious Eubank rivalry and acrimoniously splitting from long-time promoter Eddie Hearn transformed him from 'Nigel's boy' into one of British boxing's most polarising headliners.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
In the windswept village of Doonbeg on Ireland's Atlantic coast, Donald Trump is less polarising US president and more golf resort owner credited with bringing jobs and money to a remote corner of the country.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Philips is one of India's best-known - and most polarising - doctors online: admired by supporters as a fearless champion of evidence-based medicine, reviled by critics as an attention-seeking provocateur.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
In every species these two forces are at work, and the extent to which the general polarising or "vegetative-repetition-force" is subdued by the teleological is an index of the grade of the species.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
