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The phrase "widely controversial" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has been widely discussed and is opposed or debated by many people. For example: "The new policy change has been widely controversial, with many citizens opposed to its implementation."
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The product became widely controversial a few years back after a chain store began stocking it.
Surgical treatment is widely controversial, and new surgical techniques and treatment modalities have been developed within the last decade.
And later that day, from "PhilSandifer": "Were Catholicism as widely controversial as Scientology, perhaps I'd see your point…To my mind, clarifying that these are family ties, not his own ties, is only fair".
The debate still is raging on one of Gold's last, and most widely controversial, ideas: that oil and natural gas are formed not from decaying organic matter, as most scientists believe, but from geologic processes and continually well up to the surface from deep underground.
The music video was widely controversial, being banned from MTV.
The music video for Monster was widely controversial, being banned on MTV.
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It was as leader of this group that Abou Jahjah made his most widely circulated controversial statement, telling Flemish newspaper Het Laaste Nieuws in 2003 that he supported the killing of foreign troops in Iraq.
Since 1962, the incommensurability of scientific theories has been a widely discussed, controversial idea that was instrumental in the historical turn in the philosophy of science and the establishment of the sociology of science as a professional discipline.
There is heaping tons of violence and/or misogyny in works like "Marvel's The Avengers," "Star Trek Into Darkness" or, heck, even "Sex and the City 2," but you'll note that not one of those films is widely considered controversial.
At that museum, Mr. Noble organized a widely discussed and controversial exhibition called "Drug Scene" in 1971.
"This video was enormously controversial, widely seen and very upsetting," he said.
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