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Recent Examples of polarization
This is the polarization stage many of us are stuck in right now, also called othering.
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Julie Kratz, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
In a time of intense polarization, voters in municipal elections that were held Tuesday around the Chicago area showed encouraging signs of exhaustion with politicians’ drama.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Most platforms have been designed to maximize user engagement as a means of generating advertising revenue—a model that exploits our worst impulses, rewarding sensational and provocative content while creating division and polarization, and leaving many feeling anxious and isolated in the process.
—Tharin Pillay, TIME, 18 Feb. 2025
Each robot also had a photodetector that could sense the polarity of light, allowing basic commands to be sent using a simple flashlight with a polarization filter.
—Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2025
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Julie Kratz, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
In a time of intense polarization, voters in municipal elections that were held Tuesday around the Chicago area showed encouraging signs of exhaustion with politicians’ drama.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Most platforms have been designed to maximize user engagement as a means of generating advertising revenue—a model that exploits our worst impulses, rewarding sensational and provocative content while creating division and polarization, and leaving many feeling anxious and isolated in the process.
—Tharin Pillay, TIME, 18 Feb. 2025
Each robot also had a photodetector that could sense the polarity of light, allowing basic commands to be sent using a simple flashlight with a polarization filter.
—Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polarization
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Three criteria – depth, diffusion, and duration – need to be met individually to some degree in order to formally identify a recession, according to the NBER.—
Rachel Barber,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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The data are displayed in an image that is color coded to draw attention to areas of impaired diffusion.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Mar. 2025
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That index, constructed by academics, reflects newspaper reports about government policy, expiring tax code provisions and dispersion of economic forecasts.—
Simon Moore,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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The chance of a superpower confrontation now seemed remote, and the most urgent threats seemed to come from the dispersion of former Soviet nuclear materials and expertise to other countries or subnational groups.—
Gideon Rose,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Mar. 2025
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The music portion of the long-running Austin, Texas festival got started with a scattering of big and small shows around town as evening fell on March 11.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Rolling Stone,
12 Mar. 2025
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Mountfield, 62, responded by questioning, with a scattering of expletives, who Fernandes even was.—
Laurie Whitwell,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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Pecos River Drive is located in the Comanche Cove subdivision, according to WFAA.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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In January 2024, the state completed the $1.6 billion Wekiva Parkway, an elevated superhighway designed to protect wildlife and limit the sprawl of residential subdivisions.—
Martin E. Comas,
Orlando Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2025
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China’s distribution system usually entails films being made available to all Chinese cinemas simultaneously, with no efforts at audience segmentation.—
Liz Shackleton,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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The most valuable category, super premium, was down by 5.6 percent; high end premium saw a small uptick of .2 percent; and premium was down by nearly 1 percent (price segmentations vary depending on the type of spirit).—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
14 Feb. 2025
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According to the Journal & Courier, Michael filed for divorce from Kristine in 2014.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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In 2020, Clarkson filed for divorce from Blackstock, who also served as her manager.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
Fox News,
21 Mar. 2025
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Even if the idea of $5,000 stimulus checks evolves, Congress would need to approve a dispersal of funds to taxpayers.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
23 Feb. 2025
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High-altitude dispersal of ash and sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere led to optical phenomena around the globe.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
8 Dec. 2024
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The system's ability to aggregate information across multiple products also provides a form of automatic comparison shopping, presenting ranges, averages, and distributions of product attributes that would otherwise require reviewing numerous individual listings.—
Kiri Masters,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Tony Reames, professor of environmental justice at the University of Michigan, examines the intersection of energy, class, race, and geography, revealing systemic inequities in energy distribution.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Polarization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polarization. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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