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n. - A writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology).

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  • If you're calling the polemicist Arianna Huffington a "traditional network star," I demand that status be given to Ann Coulter.
  • Marie Syrkin is best known as a polemicist for the State of Israel, whose keen arguments appeared in a wide range of publications for a period of almost seventy years.
  • He is a polemicist, and thus overreaches at times.
  • He ` s by no means an alarmist, by no means a polemicist.
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