How to Use polarization in a Sentence

polarization

noun
  • At the same time, polarization and distrust are rising.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And it can be seen as both a cause and a result of political polarization.
    — Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 5 Dec. 2025
  • And polarization has come for the academy, too.
    — Keith Moore, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Look what that gentleman did to this country and the polarization – got all the cockroaches to rise to the top.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Then there’s just the societal polarization that has intensified in the past decade and has more people on edge and coiled to lash out.
    — Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Not this sort of system, anti-system polarization.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Many are grappling with how to discuss Kirk’s killing in an era of political polarization.
    — Stephanie Murray, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And in an era of so much political polarization, isn’t that a unifying message?
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In a time of deep political polarization, support for unions continues to be strong.
    — Lee Saunders, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Its low surface brightness and lack of clear polarization also complicate the picture.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Mental health struggles are on the rise, polarization is deepening and social safety nets are fraying.
    — Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • That is, the growing gap between the rich and the poor—a core feature of the polarization of American society.
    — Howard Steele, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • There is a strong connection between the growth and influence of Heritage and polarization.
    — E.j. Fagan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • That’s the missing nuance in our current state of political polarization.
    — Robert T.f. Downes, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Muted volume growth creates polarization between winners and losers and there is not enough growth to satisfy all retailers.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Now, as a byproduct of polarization, states that are predominantly either red or blue are going their separate ways.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Polling has shown that people have mixed feelings about polarization, civility and compromise.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The images spurred outrage and polarization while obscuring the war’s actual horrors.
    — David Klepper, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The most obvious reason for this particular drought is polarization.
    — Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Studying the polarization degree offers insight about the geometry of the black hole and motion of matter nearby.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But there’s also a question of the degree to which the governor’s endorsement might help or hurt at a time of heightened political polarization.
    — Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • That's due to polarization, which hampers the movement of lithium ions into the battery's electrodes during rapid charging and discharging.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Think polarization, geopolitical instability, a lot of things that just have people wobbling right now.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Zhao also said the fusion of Marvel’s in-house style and her own indie film sensibilities was another source of the movie’s polarization.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Objects with strong polarization tend to be compact objects, because larger objects have messy magnetic fields that wash out any polarization.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • For me, in making Torn, one of my most important goals was to break the echo chambers and polarization, and hopefully invite a conversation.
    — Eitan Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Shutdowns are just one symptom of the partisan polarization that has increasingly gripped Congress in recent decades.
    — Lazaro Gamio, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The first area of tension is the current climate of political conflict and community polarization.
    — Peter Smagorinsky, AJC.com, 3 Jan. 2026
  • One common method for encoding this information is through polarization, which is the orientation of a photon’s electric field.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The researchers don't argue that a family dinner at Chili's will fix inequality or reverse polarization.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025

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