How to Use polarization in a Sentence

polarization

noun
  • The events of the last few days have only added to the sense of polarization in Pakistani society.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
  • Look what that gentleman did to this country and the polarization – got all the cockroaches to rise to the top.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 26 May 2022
  • For me, there’s a polarization, which always had a sense of theater.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • For some Ohio families, the polarization of the last few years didn't end with the swearing-in of a new president this year.
    — Carl Weiser, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Our country is in a state of severe polarization: red and blue.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 July 2022
  • Keep in mind that polarization is not the same as UV protection.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 17 May 2022
  • For more on the poll’s findings on polarization, views of the future, and top concerns, check out this story.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • But this time a record number of seats – more than 300 – produced a three-way run-off, in a measure of France’s polarization.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 7 July 2024
  • In a moment of national polarization, the stakes of the ballot box rose overnight.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 22 June 2022
  • The key turned out to be combining that method with observing the polarization of these fields.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This is the polarization stage many of us are stuck in right now, also called othering.
    — Julie Kratz, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The 'polar' in 'polarization' is from Latin 'polaris,' which describes the Earth's poles.
    — Brenda Looper, arkansasonline.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Most of all, there’s a sense of Houser’s own wide-eyed dismay at the polarization of talk radio and cable news.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
  • So far, the court has avoided the extreme polarization of Congress.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021
  • The polarization of cultures is most evident within small and mid-cap PE firms, where women thrive 50% of the time.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 June 2024
  • At the other end of the spectrum, teams can be triggered into polarization.
    — Edward Sullivan, Fortune, 28 June 2022
  • No other legal case presents such a vivid metaphor for the country’s polarization.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
  • But like much of the West, the country may be entering a new era of polarization and more bitter politics.
    — Catarina Fernandes Martins, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In other words, the system's tilt away from unified control is now both a cause and effect of polarization.
    — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
  • In his essay, Bill Gates wrote that polarization in the United States makes battling global crises tougher.
    — Glenn Gamboa, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • The sensor resistance tells us how much power the field contains, and the power tells us its polarization.
    — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • What a poignant message for the world, given the current polarization of views and need to come together to solve global crisis.
    — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • Gulsen apologized for the offense the joke caused but said her comments were seized on by those wanting to deepen polarization in the country.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Choosing to self-segregate opens the door open to polarization.
    — Helen Lee Bouygues, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Elections, after all, are snapshots in time — and polarization kicks in fast.
    — Christian Paz, Vox, 2 May 2025
  • In the experiment, the polarization of laser light influenced the phases of the wave functions of the running electrons and of their shadowy partners, the holes.
    — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
  • There is also an exceptional amount of polarization in the U.S. right now, as reflected in the stats.
    — Ray Dalio, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2021
  • What are the ways that comedians can look at a very scary world, with so much conflict, so much polarization, and try to turn it into humor?
    — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The lack of transparency and the way in which the government is flaunting its arrests is giving rise to further polarization.
    — Caterina Morbiato, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2022
  • In the United States and many other countries, media fragmentation and political polarization have led to a situation in which no information source is widely trusted by individuals across the political spectrum.
    — Roseanne McManus, Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 2025

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