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The phrase "controversial statement" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are making a statement that is not generally accepted or is likely to cause debate and disagreement. For example: "The current government's climate change policy is a controversial statement in a world so urgently in need of immediate action."
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This shouldn't be a controversial statement.
That is an oddly controversial statement.
This is apparently a controversial statement.
I don't think this is a controversial statement.
That's a controversial statement, though it shouldn't be.
For him, that was virtually a controversial statement.
It's probably the least controversial statement in the Bible.
In fact, the most controversial statement of the week was only slightly controversial.
They will then discuss and address a controversial statement made by Geraldine Ferraro about Barack Obama.
Which, come to think of it, was also something of a controversial statement.
He does watch a lot of TV it doesn't seem like that's a massively controversial statement.
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