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Meanings of polemicist in English

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polemista

A person who is often engaged in polemics.

polemista
Usage of polemicist in English
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Memoir: Amos Oz, the Israeli novelist and polemicist, has written a memoir.
The Irish Times
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Yet even here, the polemicist is in danger of eclipsing the memoirist.
The Guardian
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Michael Moore, the veteran polemicist, put it well in a recent blog.
The Irish Times
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Has the sneering polemicist of American cable television decided to be less argumentative?
The Guardian
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And of course it determines that Mr Myers himself is not an Irish polemicist.
The Irish Times
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The Washington Post has described him as a "provocateur and media polemicist".
Radio NZ
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His chameleon scenarios are elusive targets and he is a slippery polemicist of Sumo formidability.
The Irish Times
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A passionate polemicist and radical Romantic, William Hazlitt was the most brilliant essayist of his day.
The Guardian
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Rebellious echoes David Stockman is a polemicist.
Reuters
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He leaves a legacy of being a rare contradiction in terms: a polemicist, with a sense of humor.
The new yorker
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The courageous, moralistic Banks is an old-style polemicist unafraid of offering technology as a serpent in the garden.
The Irish Times
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In fact, he's a born polemicist, only fully alive when marshalling all his forces to advance a particular cause.
The Guardian
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The English polemicist Christopher Hitchens had been there, she said, smoking and drinking and with his shirt wide open.
All the sad young literary men
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Newly completed, these eight man-made hills have been shaped by the distinguished US critic, polemicist and designer Charles Jencks.
The Guardian
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Madam, - Every polemicist or social commentator worth his or her salt is prone to write the occasional mediocre article.
The Irish Times
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Although he boasts a master's in economics from George Mason University, Moore is more of a polemicist than an economist.
Reuters
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