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"text": "Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the \"Atlas complex\", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries.",
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"ref": "2021, Carson Holloway, Dobbs and Democratic Legitimacy, in: Law and Liberty, December 21 2021",
"text": "If democratic legitimacy is a principle—and not just a polemical weapon wielded by the left in a selective and self-serving way—then we would have to consider not only the democratic legitimacy of a potential reversal of Roe but also the democratic legitimacy (if any) of the constitutional right to abortion itself."
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"Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.",
"(somewhat derogatory) Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy."
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"word": "პოლემიკური"
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"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2013, Johannes Zachhuber, Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany, page 57",
"text": "Remarkable here is the rather polemical choice of words […]",
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},
{
"ref": "2021, Carson Holloway, Dobbs and Democratic Legitimacy, in: Law and Liberty, December 21 2021",
"text": "If democratic legitimacy is a principle—and not just a polemical weapon wielded by the left in a selective and self-serving way—then we would have to consider not only the democratic legitimacy of a potential reversal of Roe but also the democratic legitimacy (if any) of the constitutional right to abortion itself."
}
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"sense": "of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious",
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious",
"word": "挑起爭端嘅"
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"roman": "tiu¹ hei² zang¹ dyun¹ ge³",
"sense": "of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious",
"word": "挑起争端嘅"
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"word": "好争论的"
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"word": "polemika"
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"sense": "of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious",
"word": "პოლემიკური"
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