Example Sentences
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Earlier this month, Paramount acquired the Free Press, a right-of-center news site, for $150 million and made its founder, the polemicist Bari Weiss, editor in chief of CBS’s news operations.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025
Dworkin was a feminist polemicist who had a lot of ideas that don't age well, but in this book, she's got conservative women dead to rights.
From Salon • May 8, 2023
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a conviction for incitement to racial hatred and discrimination against far-right French presidential candidate and polemicist Eric Zemmour was not a violation of his freedom of expression.
From Reuters • Dec. 20, 2022
Harris, as anyone who follows him on Twitter knows, is a polemicist who, for better or worse, doesn’t shy away from an internet tussle.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2022
Adlai Stevenson told the group that Khrushchev is merely a "tough and realistic politician and polemicist," with whom it is possible to "conduct the dialogue of reason."
From The Invisible Government by Smoot, Dan