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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are polemical" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe statements, arguments, or writings that are controversial or likely to provoke strong reactions.
Example: "The author's views on climate change are polemical, sparking heated debates among readers."
Alternatives: "are contentious" or "are controversial".
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are polemical
adjective
Of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious.
synonyms
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None of the show's artists are polemical.
Sometimes they are polemical, sometimes tinged with fictional contrivance.
Both Oliver Twist and the memoirs are polemical works, but their targets are different.
It seems to confirm the old tenet that the French are polemical as a matter of breeding.
A few of the stories that round out the present volume are polemical and coarsely melodramatic; Kanafani was nothing if not a man with a mission.
Of his main works, the earliest are attacks on the papacy, Franciscans, and Dominicans, and two of the latest are polemical satires against the Roman Catholic church and especially the Jesuits.
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The work is polemical but persuasively varied.
"It's polemical in good fun.
"They were polemical, they were political, they were battle tracts".
The writing is polemical, and not remotely dialectical.
Often the original impulse to her writing was polemical.
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