Thesaurus results for POLEMICIST

polemicist

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as in polemist

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Recent Examples of polemicist Justice Kagan has sometimes been viewed as a strategist rather than a polemicist, who tries to forge agreements with the Court’s more moderate conservative members. —

Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 May 2026 Whereas Schafer was a polemicist, wanting to impose his ideas onto society, Lockwood is interested in a personal symbiosis with nature, beginning with the humble belief that one is open to change. —

Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026 It was started in 1995 by libertarians Justin Raimondo, a prolific polemicist who died in 2019, and editor Eric Garris, with occasional pieces turning into daily updates in April 1998. —

John Seiler, Oc Register, 7 Dec. 2025

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Social media platforms were a critical battleground during the campaign, with political mudslingers waging cyberwar with few legal constraints after the government failed to act on calls for a new law to protect democracy in the internet age.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
In 2010, when the group launched ahead of Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, Brock had imposed a set of self-regulations on the staff that would cultivate an air of respectability for the mudslingers.

— Gabriel Debenedetti, Daily Intelligencer, 20 May 2018