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Recent Examples of polarization
In fact, polarization has nothing to do with how much or how little protection a pair of sunglasses offers from UV radiation.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 6 May 2025
At the same time, global polarization around topics like migration and climate change has only grown since 2013, showing the limits of his influence in secular life.
—Sophie Hills, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2025
There’s growing evidence that social media and the decline of in-person social connection have coincided with major increases in anxiety and depression, as well as political polarization and pessimism about the future.
—Kim Samuel, Time, 14 May 2025
Political polarization seeps into workplace dynamics.
—Aparna Rae, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 6 May 2025
At the same time, global polarization around topics like migration and climate change has only grown since 2013, showing the limits of his influence in secular life.
—Sophie Hills, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2025
There’s growing evidence that social media and the decline of in-person social connection have coincided with major increases in anxiety and depression, as well as political polarization and pessimism about the future.
—Kim Samuel, Time, 14 May 2025
Political polarization seeps into workplace dynamics.
—Aparna Rae, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for polarization
Recent Examples of Synonyms for polarization
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The decision to scrap the AI diffusion rule, on the other hand, is a helpful one in the short run — reflected by Nvidia’s 3% pop in the final hour of trading Wednesday.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
8 May 2025
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The trip coincides with the enforcement deadline for the AI diffusion rule—a regulation introduced in late 2024 aimed at preventing sensitive chip technology from reaching adversarial nations or being rerouted through Gulf countries.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 May 2025
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Avocados’ dependence upon megafaunal dispersion almost led to their undoing when all of these large mammals suddenly went extinct around 12,500 years ago due to human hunting, possibly also combined with environmental or climactic effects.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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And rendering specialists need it to accurately simulate real-world optical effects like dispersion (rainbows from prisms, for example) and fluorescence.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Mar. 2025
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Her matching set consisted of a pencil skirt and blazer cinched with a belt, all of which featured a scattering of white polka dots against a sky blue fabric.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
19 May 2025
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When the team treated the duck fat with lipases, mixed it with normal liver, and then studied it with X-ray scattering and other techniques, the result was remarkably similar to foie gras.—
Ari Daniel,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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Directly south of Tierra Vista, Hanover is planning Preservation Place, a 561-lot subdivision to be built over three phases right along the turnpike.—
James Wilkins,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 May 2025
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Toll Brothers also recently revived plans to build nearly 700 homes in two subdivisions in northwest Meridian, roughly 12 miles away.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
20 May 2025
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In essence, your brand-new product aimed at a global audience must be launched through CRM segmentation, personalized content, approvals from legal and landing pages—all coordinated together on time.—
Barbara Puszkiewicz-Cimino,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Proper network segmentation helps isolate critical systems and limits the blast radius of a breach.—
Ian Bramson,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Court records offer a window into the family discord that marked the suspect’s youth, including his parents’ messy divorce and allegations of verbal and emotional abuse.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
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The former New England Patriots coach began dating the television presenter in 2007, one year after his divorce from ex-wife Debby Clarke.—
Rebecca Aizin,
People.com,
21 May 2025
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Researchers in Australia are using Gaia to learn how mosquitoes colonized islands in the South Pacific, while teams in Michigan and Ohio are using it to understand the history and dispersal of the Massasauga rattlesnake.—
Stephanie Edwards,
Discover Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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Each prescribed fire operation follows a prescribed fire burn plan, which considers temperature, humidity, wind, moisture of the vegetation, and conditions for the dispersal of smoke.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Some of our recommendations included: Reimagining central power distribution such as placement, resiliency to direct and secondary hazards, distributed generation and battery redundancy.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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On June 3, 2020, a grand jury returned an indictment charging Aguilar-Linares and nine others with narcotics distribution and money laundering offenses.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
23 May 2025
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“Polarization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polarization. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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