Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
polarize . - adjective That
polarizes
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Examples
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Now, the UCLA team has created what it calls a polarizing organic photovoltaic, which can potentially boost the function of an LCD by working simultaneously as a polarizer, a photovoltaic device and an ambient light or sunlight photovoltaic panel.
Gizmodo Adrian Covert 2011
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Citing what he described as polarizing rhetoric from the Republican ticket and a desire to give conservative voters a better choice, City Council candidate Brent Robertson announced Wednesday he is changing his political affiliation from independent to Republican.
News for Lynchburg News Advance Lynchburg News Advance 2010
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Citing what he described as polarizing rhetoric from the Republican ticket and a desire to give conservative voters a better choice, City Council candidate Brent Robertson announced Wednesday he is changing his political affiliation from independent to Republican.
News for Lynchburg News Advance Lynchburg News Advance 2010
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Sometimes I think my life is set up in polarizing opposites just to mock me.
June « 2008 « 2008
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Sometimes I think my life is set up in polarizing opposites just to mock me.
Twisted roots. « 2008
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But besides the political fallout, I fear that the movie will just succeed in polarizing people into ID or anti-ID camps
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Bilbo: But besides the political fallout, I fear that the movie will just succeed in polarizing people into ID or anti-ID camps
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But besides the political fallout, I fear that the movie will just succeed in polarizing people into ID or anti-ID camps, with the concommitant yelling and screaming at each other, and making it more difficult for people to approach the topic with open-minded, intellectual curiosity, in the tradition of The Design Matrix.
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Really the only place I hear about Clinton being SO polarizing is from the media.
Waldo Jaquith - Americans don’t like Bush or Republicans. 2007
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These women seem to be enjoying their fame in polarizing a debate that need not exist.
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