polarized
- adjective
- /ˈpoʊlərˌaɪzd/
- Literature
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polarizado
- People become very polarized because they only listen to news that relates to something that backs up the world view that they have.
I could not stop thinking about how polarized our country is.
- I could not stop thinking about how polarized our country is.
- Fighting, especially in the United States, has become more polarized than ever.
- So I think that's why people are polarized and and asked to choose.
- I know it's easy to look at media and say a discourse is polarized and is broken.
- But part of the problem is that our we're so polarized.
- And, and in each position, you know, there's taking, you're, you're becoming more polarized.
- And it's, it's, it's more like what scares me is that the world is very polarized too.
- Certainly over the course of time that I was writing this book, politics became even more polarized.
- But the whole thing is because it was this larger atmosphere of polarised or not even polarised, but fractured, fractured politics.
- The latter are highly polarized and increasingly paralyzed.
- It it is a ugly, ugly situation that's very polarized.
Examples
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Many communities are polarized over the new policy, leading to heated discussions and protests.
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In today's political landscape, people are often polarized along party lines.
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I could not stop thinking about how polarized our country is.
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Fighting, especially in the United States, has become more polarized than ever.
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And especially now, I mean, we are very, very polarized in this country.
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And we look at the fact that we have these groups now, and it just seems that we're more polarized, more divided than ever.
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What do you think needs to happen to in this polarized moment to bring some peace and unity to this country?
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So one of the things that happens at the end of the class is people's opinions are usually not as polarized as they were in the beginning.
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And that's the thing that breaks my heart the most is because we live in such a polarized, hateful world right now.
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The debate about climate change has become increasingly polarized, with strong opinions on both sides.
Synonyms
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People have different opinions about something
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Divided into two different parts or groups
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Involving two sides with different views
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How Polarized
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Morphology
Etymology
Polarized comes from the word pole, which means 'opposite ends' like the North and South poles. So when people are polarized they are pulled into two clear and opposite groups.